New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1963. First edition (one of 2,000 copies). Illustrated with 80 folding color screen-prints by Albers (some with overlays or laid in sheets). Loose as issued in original black cloth folding slip case, lettered in white, unevenly faded, library label at foot of spine, residue at head of spine from removed label, paper library pocket mounted to inner flap; each print with library ink stamp on verso; soiling and moderate wear to sheets. Together with the two volumes of text and commentary (as issued); each 4to; in original black cloth and wrappers, each with library book-plate on front paste-down and library ink stamp on title-page.

First edition of Josef Albers's masterpiece on the study of color, the work that "would immortalize the name Josef Albers for artists and art students the world over" (Danilowitz, p. 20). Albers began the project that would culminate in this publication in 1957 while teaching at Yale. Conceived as a book about the "teaching and learning of color", Albers culled heavily from his courses on color interaction he had taught over the previous years, using some of the best examples of student work completed during that time to illustrate the behavior and relationship between various colors. "Published in 1963...Interaction of Color was an unprecedentedly complicated production that involved three printing firms and custom-mixed inks. Albers supervised the production of the color studies with the help of [Sewell] Sillman, and a small army of Yale students was roped in to help assemble the completed portfolios. [Norman] Ives was responsible for the design." (Danilowitz, pp. 20-21)