Royal Road Test. 27 l. 33 half or full page, 2 double page illustrations after photographs by Patrick Blackwell in collaboration with Mason Williams and Edward Ruscha. 23,8 x 16 cm. Original manila-colored, titled wrappers. Spiral binding (minor staining to back cover, light indentation across cover, printing defect to title on front cover resulting in a streak of missing ink). Los Angeles, Mason Williams; Ed Ruscha; Patrick Blackwell, 1967.

Engberg/Phillpot B 6. First edition. Inscribed and dated by Ed Ruscha and Mason Williams "To Phyillis 4 May 67" in black & blue ink on the front endpaper. "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" (cit. Engberg & Phillpot - Ed Ruscha Editions 1959-1999, Catalogue Raisonné, vol 2, p. 68). - Margins minimally browned, otherwise clean and fine copy.