Brownian Motion

Wow -- fantastic find. What were the circumstances around the original creation of the portfolio? Do you know who did the printing and the size of the edition? "The New York Collection for Stockholm, Experiments in Art and Technology" is the full name of the portfolio, and the artists "donated" their work. The edition was 300 copies. I read all the printed material that came with the portfolio, but there was no further explanation.

I was perusing the book listings on ebay, looking for art books, and came upon someone selling a portfolio of signed graphics from thirty of the heavy-hitters of New York art world of the 1970s--Twombley. Warhol, Rauchenberg, Noland etc.; it was being sold as a book, and the description said nothing about artist signatures. To make a long story short I bought it for the opening bid, 30.00, a dollar a print, and within a week of receiving it in the mail I dispatched it to Rago Auction House; it will appear in their post WWII art auction in May with a starting bid in the 6 to 9 thousand dollar range.

Thoroughly Modern Millie Unsinkable Molly Brown Mandy Make Up Your Mind

Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch J.J. Cale Matthew Broccoli

Sloop John B Tinkerbell Gypsy Moth

Oysters Rockefeller Barnacle Bill Porgy & Bess

Hou Yifan, a 16-year-old chess player from China, became the youngest chess champion on Friday, toppling a record held since 1978.

Marshall McCluhan Sargent Shriver Omar Sharif

Edward Cox Tricky Dick Lana Lawless

Margaret "Countess" Johnson Garnet Clarke Oscar Peterson

Sojourner Truth The Arkansas Traveler Moses

Olivia Newton-John Max Born Mortimer Borne

Me and Julio Ernesto Gallo Caesar Chavez

Bastard Out of Carolina Jim DeMint Mason Reese

Mr Softee Mr Peanut Mitch McConnell

And here is the word jazz in American English- http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=jazz&year_start=1900&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3 and in French- http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=jazz&year_start=1900&year_end=2008&corpus=7&smoothing=3

No jazz producer was perfect, least of all Leonard Feather, who marred a few jazz recording dates with his clunky piano playing, and marred even more with his ersatz blues lyrics.

Charles Goodnight Charles Sandman Jim Sleeper

My advice would be to buy the Collected Works. IMO Balliett was at his best when writing about the generation of musicians that developed before the 2nd World War, musicians who were still active when Balliett began his writing career in the mid 1950s. You could buy those early books individually, but some of them can be fairly pricey, whereas the Collected Works can be purchased used for a modest price.

Mad Manx Madmen J Walter Thompson

Soupy Sales Stew Allsop Caspar Milquetoast

Thatcher Milk Snatcher Bill Deedes BillF Daniel Arap Moi U Thant I Claudius Mel Gibson Gibson Girl Harry Gibson

Ed Beach Mrs Marple Phil Ochs

Moms Mabley Mary Ann Mobley Moms Mobley

Blind Joe Death Country Joe & the Fish Old Black Joe