This unique book was shown at an exhibition at Galerie 13 in Hannover, Germany from January 19 - February 24, 1996. Indeed, a catalogue reproducing the works in this book is included in a folder within the book; a brochure announcing the exhibition is also included. The book is divided into five parts, three in the first part and two in the second part of the dos-a-dos design. The first part includes Andryczuk's "Cosmographic Poetry and Art." This consists of 18 pages of rubberstamped images like an accordion and a stylized sun figure with a single letter in colored ink alongside the image. In addition, there are four pages of rubberstamped bees and drawn ink and gold figures and letters on commercially printed material.The second section entitled, "Letters for myself" consists of 18 pages of airmail envelopes collaged onto a white page which has been rubberstamped, "KOPIA" at the top and 030495 at the bottom. The envelopes are rubberstamped with an image of a Scuba diver and a Cyrillic letter, 'i'; in addition, Andyczuk has made surrealistic, ink, line drawings of heads and extemities.The third section entitled, "Hybrid Guests for 'A Book for the World'" consists of drawings, collages and a poem object by other artists or poets in the spirit of an Assembling production. The fourth section entitled, "Little Voyagers," consists of Andryczuk's contributions to Assembling periodicals in the international mail art network. These drawings are included in a cardboard folder, engraved with silver letters reading IV Little Voyagers, affixed to the inside cover of the second part of the dos-a-dos construction. The magazines to which the photocopied reproductions of these drawings were sent included Entwerter/Oder, Tense Tendoned, 60 x Mani Art, New Times, Brio Cell, Miniature Obscure, Stint among others. The other enclosure in the second part of the dos-a-dos is entitled "The Rest - 4 envelopes for Marvin/ The Unicum-Machine; A Book for the World (as an edition)" [Marvin refers to Marvin Sackner]. The enclosure includes four postal envelopes with stamps, crayon drawn letters, painted surrealistic figurative images and rubberstamped expressions as well as a catalogue of the exhibition that reproduces the images from the section of "Hybrid Guests for 'A Book for the World'." An essay of two pages by Pierre Garnier commenting upon this book has been included in the preceding enclosure by the Sackners. He states the following: "If we look at the productions of Hartmut Andryczuk and his circle of poets and graphic artists we may well talk about new ways in poetry. New poetic expressions attract our attention: the idea of the unicum - one unique book for the world, the book as one world side by side with the world. You have to contemplate this unique copy as if through a telescope or through a microscope or on a set of scales or in a test tube - contemplating a book as one does the world. The unique copy book resists infinite reproductions of infinite copies. It resists the self reproducing reproduction known since Gutenberg. Like any other creature the unicum exists just once (just one bee is only superficially comparable to another). You know of its existence, maybe there are photos or fragments of it around. Yet, this unique existence is part of the universal memory - of mankind and of the world -.The desire for the unique, the effort to participate in the unique places the poet in a new position: he is no longer aiming at the reproduction of his writing in the commonplaces of language. Instead he is confronting the gradually flattening, fading and boring with an increase in poetic imagery, with an increase in scandals, and with an increase in mediation. And anyway, didn't the number of readers drop to such an extent as to raise the question if poets have not grimly erected the capital of a vanishing world?Hartmut Andryczuk calls his Unique Copy Machine a Book for the World. This sounds as if the world is waiting for the book, as if the unicum machine is part of the world - in the same way that a seagull or like a chalk cliff are part of my Picardian landscape. Behind all this is possibly the idea that poetry goes beyond humanity. The principle of reproduction - the value of poetry - disappears for the benefit of a simple but complete presence. One unique book is in the world, just the book exists, and the world is a book and it is unique and lyrical.The lyrical brain of the world produces the lines and forms, the words and word images, the figures and colors used by the unique copy machine to spin, to weave, and to knit its poetical network - and workers cooperate each in their own way, each one individual and unique - as in a beehive.The Unicum Machine - a projection and a plan by Hartmut Andryczuk - is saying, as do all projections, that we both exist and don't exist. It replaces TO BE OR NOT TO BE with TO BE AND TO BE. This is the essence of poetry." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.