In November 1930, he traveled with his portable printing press to Paris where he continued with the publication of Poesía. He also initiated the collection “Ediciones de Poesía, " with works by Alfonso Reyes, Carlos Rodríguez-Pintos, Jules Supervielle and Jorge Guillén, and drawings by Gregorio Prieto. His poem, “Un verso para una amiga,” published as a plaquette, was very successful. In March of 1931, he went to Switzerland to visit his friend, Bernabé Fernández-Canivell. He spent the summer on the island of Port-Cros with Supervielle, and translated some of his poems later published as the book Bosque sin horas (1932).

Back in Madrid, he published Soledades juntas at the end of 1931. Gerardo Diego included Altolaguirre’s poems in his famous Antología (March 1932).

Altolaguirre married the poet and playwright Concha Méndez in June of 1932. Many members of the literary and artistic circles of Madrid attended their wedding. A few weeks before their weeding, the couple had founded the journal Héroe, which published works by Lorca, Cernuda, Aleixandre, and Moreno Villa, among others. Each issue of the journal opened with a lyrical portrait written by Juan Ramón Jiménez. In 1933, Altolaguirre and Méndez started “La tentativa poética," a collection of plaquettes, inaugurated by the publication of Cernuda’s La invitación a la poesía, and Mendez’ Vida a vida.

In March of 1933, the couple’s first son died at birth; it was a hard knock for them, and they both sought relief in poetry. Altolaguirre published two books: Antología de la poesía romántica española, and a biography of Garcilaso de la Vega, and both were well received by the critics.

In October of 1933, Altolaguirre received a grant from the Junta para Ampliación de Estudios and moved with his wife to London, where they published the bilingual journal 1616, a title celebrating the year in which both Cervantes and Shakespeare died. 1616 published poems (translated into Spanish) by T. S. Eliot and A. E. Housman, and also poems in Spanish by Lorca, Cernuda, Aleixandre, and Neruda. He also translated in its pages the first 33 stanzas of Shelley’s Adonaïs. Ramón Pérez de Ayala’s Ramoneo, and Stanley Richardson’s Way into Life appeared as two supplements of the journal. Their daughter, Elizabeth Paloma was born on March 15, 1935.

The couple returned to Madrid in the fall, and they began printing Caballo Verde para la Poesía, a journal edited by Pablo Neruda. The journal published works by the new Spanish poets, and also by several Latin American writers. In January 1936, they began the collection “Héroe,” which released the poetic works of numerous writers, from Manuel Machado to Miguel Hernández, as well as poems by the main figures of the Generation of '27. Altolaguirre’s contribution was La lenta libertad (1936). He and his wife printed for the publishing house Cruz y Raya Salinas’ Razón de amor, Cernuda’s La realidad y el deseo, and two volumes of Bergamín’s Disparadero español. However, their project to print Lorca’s Poeta en Nueva York failed. In July of 1936, Altolaguirre published Las islas invitadas, an anthology of his poetry. This was an important book, but unfortunately, with the outbreak of the Civil War, the volume did not receive much attention.