Royal Road Test
Ruscha, Ed
Los Angeles. 1967
The first edition of Ruscha's artist book produced in collaboration with Mason Williams and Patrick Blackwell.
From the first edition limited to 1,000 copies.
'Royal Road Test is a picture-book story of a Royal manual typewriter that was thrown out of the window of a 1963 Buick travelling at ninety miles per hour. Ruscha is cast in the role of the driver, Blackwell the photographer, and Williams the 'thrower'. The core of the book is a photographic examination of the wreckage of the typewriter strewn over many square yards, spoofing the methods of an investigator analyzing the demise of an automobile prototype.' (Clive Phillpot).
[Engberg & Phillpot B6].
From the first edition limited to 1,000 copies.
'Royal Road Test is a picture-book story of a Royal manual typewriter that was thrown out of the window of a 1963 Buick travelling at ninety miles per hour. Ruscha is cast in the role of the driver, Blackwell the photographer, and Williams the 'thrower'. The core of the book is a photographic examination of the wreckage of the typewriter strewn over many square yards, spoofing the methods of an investigator analyzing the demise of an automobile prototype.' (Clive Phillpot).
[Engberg & Phillpot B6].
[29 leaves]. 8vo. (238 x 162 mm). Printed title, copyright verso, leaf with quotation and 36 monochrome reproduction photographs with captions, several as spreads, several with multiple images to a page or spread. Original manila-coloured plastic spiral-bound printed wrappers, title in black to front wrapper, front cover with a small mark and abrasion to centre.
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