(Albers, Josef). THE INTERACTION OF COLOR. Yale University Press, New Haven, 1963. Edition of 2000 copies, of which this is one 50 signed and numbered by Albers.
Large quarto (c 13 x 10 inches). Signed and numbered "38/50." Cloth slipcase containing text volume (cloth, 80pp.) and cloth chemise-style box with concordance to plates (wraps, 48pp) and eighty folders (13 x 10 inches, opening to 13 x 20 inches) containing the plates, each with a protective tissue to prevent offsetting of the colors. Plates are printed in as many as twenty colors, with a combination of silk-screen (serigraph), four color separation and photo-offset processes.
The box and spines in a rich deep brown, without the fading often seen with this set. The internals are Fine and very fresh.
We have not seen a copy from the signed edition
before, and there are none on offer online; the work is now scarce even
in the large regular edition, and rare with the signature.
