np, 21 b&w illustrations + endpapers. Designed by Ed Ruscha. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. A year prior to Ed Ruscha, Mason Williams and Patrick Blackwell's 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 that became "Royal Road Test", the same Oklahoma-born trio collaborated on self-published "The Night I Lost my Baby.". It features Mason Williams's first-person prose poem narrative of shattered romance illustrated with Patrick Blackwell's vintage photographs of Sin City - all art directed by Ed Ruscha. A most handsome example of the uncommon first and only edition limited to five hundred unnumbered copies additionally bearing the BOLDLY SIGNED AND DATED PRESENTATION "To . / Mason Williams / 1967" in black ink on the front free endpaper showing some light soiling and dulling to the metallic cloth covers.

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Title

THE NIGHT I LOST MY BABY: A LAS VEGAS VIGNETTE BY MASON WILLIAMS - SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR

Publisher

Self-Published, Los Angeles

Publication Date

1966

Binding

Cloth

Edition

First Edition 1/500.

Condition

Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

No Jacket - As Issued

Signed

Signed Presentation Copy from the Author

Book Type

Artist's Book

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