Original folder in cardboard grayish paper with etching by Hayter, pasted in the middle.
1939 · Paris/New York
by Stephen Spencer. Louis Aragon. With 9 signed etchings by Miro, Kandinsky, Hayter, Buckland-Wright, Hecht, Husband, Mead, Rieser and Vargas
Sans lieu [New York and Paris], March 1939. Poem by Stephen Spender, translation in French by Louis Aragon.
Stephen Spender's poem "Fall of a city" is followed by its French translation by Louis Aragon "Chute d'une cité"; both poem and translation are signed by Spencer and Aragon in pencil. A remarkable album of 9 original engravings by John Buckland-Wright, Stanley William Hayter, Josef Hecht, Dalla Husband, Wassily Kandinsky, Roderick Mead, Joan Miró, Dolf Rieser and Luis Vargas, all signed in pencil by the artists. An additional etching by Hayter that integrates the word Fraternity on an abstract line-drawing, is mounted on the album's hard folder cover at the center of it.
First edition. Limited in 113 numbered copies on Montval hand-made paper printed on March 1, 1939, by Gonzalo More, Atelier 17 and Henri Hecht for the engravings. This copy is numbered H and is one of the 12 copies reserved for collaborators numbered A to L. In additions there are 100 copies numbered up to 101, and a single issue contained drawings and engravings.
The Fraternity album was intended to raise funds to support the needs of the orphans of the Spanish Civil War. The poet Stephen Spender had fought in Spain with the International Brigades. Loose as issued and complete. The folder covers show damage and foxing. Inside, all the pages exhibit yellowish stains at the edges, including the edges of the engravings. The engraving images and signatures are clear of stains and in very good condition. (Inventory #: B-25-020002)
Stephen Spender's poem "Fall of a city" is followed by its French translation by Louis Aragon "Chute d'une cité"; both poem and translation are signed by Spencer and Aragon in pencil. A remarkable album of 9 original engravings by John Buckland-Wright, Stanley William Hayter, Josef Hecht, Dalla Husband, Wassily Kandinsky, Roderick Mead, Joan Miró, Dolf Rieser and Luis Vargas, all signed in pencil by the artists. An additional etching by Hayter that integrates the word Fraternity on an abstract line-drawing, is mounted on the album's hard folder cover at the center of it.
First edition. Limited in 113 numbered copies on Montval hand-made paper printed on March 1, 1939, by Gonzalo More, Atelier 17 and Henri Hecht for the engravings. This copy is numbered H and is one of the 12 copies reserved for collaborators numbered A to L. In additions there are 100 copies numbered up to 101, and a single issue contained drawings and engravings.
The Fraternity album was intended to raise funds to support the needs of the orphans of the Spanish Civil War. The poet Stephen Spender had fought in Spain with the International Brigades. Loose as issued and complete. The folder covers show damage and foxing. Inside, all the pages exhibit yellowish stains at the edges, including the edges of the engravings. The engraving images and signatures are clear of stains and in very good condition. (Inventory #: B-25-020002)
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