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Four large portfolios (Folio) 51x33 cm (20x13"), with illustrated covers and paper cover labels, containing loose broadsides. Printed by Noel Young and designed by Alan Brilliant. Each one of 325 numbered copies. 

Printed to commemorate the opening of the Unicorn Bookshop on January 2, 1967. Each set complete with additional sheets listing contributors and biographies. Set 1 with 5 pieces of ephemera from the Unicorn Bookshop. A total of 40 broadsides from some of the most notable poets of the 20th century.

Includes:

• Set one (No. 116 of 325): "Go Round" by Gary Snyder, "Willing to Be " by Madeline Gleason, "December 20, 1966" and "Three Poems" by Ken Maytag (with rice paper sheet laid in to protect "December 20, 1966"), "Can We Love and Play and Know" by Melissa Mytinger (broadside has large silkscreen print in blue and green), " Barbara" by Jacques Prevert, "Little Allegories of Canada" by Miriam Waddington, "
• Set two (No. 309 of 325). Broadsides by: Bertolt Brecht, Jacques Prevert, Antonio Marchado, Paul Celan, Kenneth Patchen, William March, George Hitchcock, Nikolai Morshen, Wolfgang Roth and Nhat Hanh.
• Set three (No. 101 of 325):  "The lost one" by Cecil Hemley; "Two poems" by Tim Reynolds; "Three poems and a portrait" by Langston Hughes; "From the tower" by Philip Levine; "Left hand, right hand" by Lawrence Fixel; "Prayer for Kif " by Ken Maytag; "Shapes" by Teo Savory; "Getting there" by George Hitchcock; "The originators" by Thomas Merton.
• Set four (No. 234 of 325):  Broadsides by Thomas Merton, John Haines, Wolfgang Roth, Robert Bly, Guillevic, Teo Savory, Nathaniel Tarn, Boris Pasternak, Jaime Sabines, Lenore Marshall, Janeen Vanden Berg, Jeffrey Sorenson, and Noel Young.