RUSCHA ED WILLIAMS MASON Royal Road Test

Sale 2146 - Lot 170

Price Realized: $ 3,120

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Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500

RUSCHA, ED & WILLIAMS, MASON. Royal Road Test. Illustrated with reproductions depicting the disintegration of the Royal (Model "X") Typewriter. Tall 8vo, spiral bound printed wrappers, lightly soiled, creased. first edition, signed by ruscha and williams. (Los Angeles), (1967)

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A mock "crime scene" pictorial investigation in which Ruscha (the driver), Blackwell (the photographer) , and Williams (the "thrower") pitched a typewriter outside the window of their 1963 Buick Le Sabre. In addition to pictures showing the protagonists posing alongside the wreckage of the typewriter there are close-ups of its (body) parts.