Deucalion, No 1, Marzo / March 1951
The rare first issue of Angel Crespo's short-lived but important Spanish poetry journal
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Printing Details
First edition. Wraps with printed title to front cover, pages folded in loose as called for. 25 × 17.5cm, unpaginated (c.28 pages). Spanish text.
A rare first printing of the first issue of Deucalion, a short-lived but influential post-war Spanish poetry journal. It was founded and edited by Angel Crespo and ran from 1951 to 1953, it was published avoiding censorship in the strict Franco regime but was forced to close for refusing to print the Francoist symbol of yoke and arrows to the rear cover. The masthead was drawn by Gregorio Prieto.
This first issue includes works from the Generation of '27 and the Generation of '36, as well as contemporary Spanish language poets, and along with black and white illustrations by contemporary Spanish artists. Contents:
El Rey Deucalion (introduction);
Cesta con frutas by Filippo de Pisis (image);
Epitafo by Vicente Aleixandre (poem);
Huesped Desenterrado by Manuel del Cabral (poem);
La Estatura del Alma by Luis Felipe Vivanco (poem);
Retrato por Chebe (tipped in photograph);
A Sagrario Torres by Juan Alcaide Sanchez (poem);
Reflejo en el Agua (Homenaje a Debussy) by Federico Muelas (poem);
Poeta by Gregorio Prieto (illustration);
Gregorio Prieto entre nosotros by F Calatayud (prose);
Albumblaeter by Gerardo Diego (poem);
Dibujo (drawing) by Rafael Alberti (illustration);
La orla by Angel Crespo (poem);
Ego by Juan Eduardo Cirlot (poem);
Pieza musical autografa de Federico Garcia Lorca (illustration);
La Casa by Gabino-Alejandro Carriedo (poem);
Biografia de Roberto G. by Antonio Frenandez Molina (poems);
Petroflifo en las margenes del Rio Chacuey (illustration);
Paraiso Encontrado by Sergio Torres (poem);
El dueno de un "almacen" by Francisco Nieva (prose);
"Canto a Guiomar" by Jose Maria Mar-Val (prose);
"Jaraiz" de Jean Alcaide by Antonio Sanchez Ruiz (prose);
Final page illustration by Madrilley.
Condition
This copy is in very good condition for age. There is some tanning and fading to the covers edges, and a few small marks to the rear cover, the biggest of which has gone through lightly to the final page illustrations. The contents are in very good condition, though with some very light spotted foxing to the page edges. A very good copy.
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Price
£200.00
