IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0097 UNICORN
Held at: British Library of Political and Economic Science
Title: Unicorn Bookshop
Date(s): [1960-1970]
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 25 boxes
Name of creator(s): Unicorn Bookshop
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Possibly the Unicorn Bookshop in Brighton, owned and run by Bill Butler, a US beat poet and occultist.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of the Unicorn Bookshop, [1960-1970], a bookshop specialising in anarchist and sexually subversive publications.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: [English]
System of arrangement:
Unsorted.
Conditions governing access:
Closed.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Various copyright. No documents may be photocopied.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Unlisted.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
Acquired in 1970.
Immediate source of acquisition:
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Compiled by Sarah Aitchison as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.
Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions: May 2001