-
ROYAL ROAD TEST - A CHARMING SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY FROM ED RUSCHA
(RUSCHA, EDWARD). Ruscha, Edward, Mason Williams & Patrick Blackwell. Los Angeles. 1967 (1971).: Self-Published. Third Edition 1/2000. 8vo. Spiral Bound Wrappers. Artists' Book. Very Good./No Jacket - As Issued.. 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 1971 third 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 two thousand unnumbered copies issued without glassine wrapper additionally bearing the SIGNED PRESENTATION "... M'Love / Ed Ruscha" in blue ink on the front free endpaper to a former girlfriend from whom we obtained this directly. The book shows virtually no wear or handling, but does have a few small areas of mostly unobtrusive faint brown spotting on the front cover. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 022420