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Description

Heading: (Ruscha, Edward)
Author: Williams, Mason, Edward Ruscha, and Patrick Blackwell
Title: Royal Road Test
Place Published: [Los Angeles]
Publisher:
Date Published: [1971]
Description:

[54] pp. Illustrated throughout from photographs by Patrick Blackwell. 24x15.8 cm (9½x6½"), spiral-bound wrappers. One of 2000 copies. Third Edition.

Photographic chronicle of the destruction wrought when a Royal manual typewriter was thrown from the window of a 1963 Buick Le Sabre traveling through the Nevada desert at 90 miles per hour. Ruscha was the driver, Williams threw the typewriter, and Blackwell took the photographs.

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Fine, or nearly so,

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Edward Ruscha, Royal Road Test, 1971

Name: Edward Ruscha, Royal Road Test, 1971
SKU: 143870584
Price: 275 USD
Availability: InStock

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