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ROYAL ROAD TEST
(RUSCHA, EDWARD). Ruscha, Edward, Mason Williams & Patrick Blackwell. Los Angeles, 1967 (1980): Self Published. Fourth Printing 1/1500. 8vo. Spiral Bound Wrappers. Artist's Book. Fine.. 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! A bright, most handsome example of the fourth and final printing (whose 1967 first edition is entry B6 in Siri Engberg's "Edward Ruscha: Editions 1959-1999"). (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, five hundred unnumbered copies issued without glassine wrapper. Inventory Number: 026988