Unicorn Bookshop

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0097 UNICORN
Held at	: British Library of Political and Economic Science   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.lse.ac.uk/library ›
Full 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 & Use

Language/scripts of material:
[English]

System of arrangement:

Unsorted.

Conditions governing access:

Closed.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Various copyright. No documents may be photocopied.

Finding aids:

Unlisted.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Acquired in 1970.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Allied Materials

Related material:

National Register of Archives: Click here to view NRA record

Publication note:

Description Notes

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