(RUSCHA, EDWARD). Ruscha, Edward, Mason Williams & Patrick Blackwell. ROYAL ROAD TEST - SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY FROM MASON WILLIAMS. Self-Published, Los Angeles, 1967.

Price: US$1650.00 + shipping

Description: np (60pp), 35 b&w photographs. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. What happens when Ed Ruscha, Mason Williams and Patrick Blackwell perform and document a Consumer Reports-style crash test involving a Royal manual typewriter ejected from a 1963 Buick LeSabre traveling at ninety miles per hour along US Highway 91.? "Royal Road Test" - a must-have artists' book for road-trip and Conceptual Art enthusiasts alike! An internally bright, most handsome example of the 1967 first edition (entry B6 in Siri Engberg's "Edward Ruscha: Editions 1959-1999" which is also cited on pages 198-201 of The Hasselblad Center's "The Open Book") limited to one thousand unnumbered copies issued without glassine wrapper additionally bearing the SIGNED PRESENTATION "For . / Mason Williams" in black ink on the front free endpaper showing some light soiling, sunning, and creasing t the covers at the extremities. It has been priced accordingly.

Seller: Arcana: Books on the Arts, Culver City, CA, U.S.A.