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Just Out: Joachim Fest’s Hitler is big and ambitious (Harcourt, $15). From the same house, Konrad Lorenz’ Civilized Man’s Eight Deadly Sins ($4.95). . . . John R. Coleman took a year off presiding over Haverford College to work as ditchdigger, dishwasher, and garbageman, records it all in Blue-Collar Journal for Lippincott ($6.95). . . . Jack Newfield covers a batch of legal horrors in Cruel and Unusual Justice (Holt, $7.95). . . . As long-lived as he is productive, Irving Berlin finally gets a biography, Michael Freedland’s (Stein & Day, $8.95). . . . Not many humor books on the spring lists, so maybe you’d better settle for Sybil Leek’s Zodiac of Love (Regnery, $7.95). . . . Now in a new edition, the invaluable Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church by F. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (Oxford, $35).

Richard Ney is still sore at The Wall Street Gang (Praeger, $8.95). The same publisher assembles a picture book of graffiti, Watching My Name Go By, with text by Mailer ($14.95; paper, $7.95). . . . Reputedly the sole survivor of Katyn Forest, Eugenjusz Andrei Komorowski tells the bloody story in Night Never Ending (Regnery, $8.95). . . . Henry Pleasants, member , in good standing of one of the world’s exclusive clubs, the discerning writers on pop music, presents The Great American Popular Singers (Simon & Schuster, $8.95). . . . Déjà vu of the year could be Agnew Untitled by Jules Witcover and Richard Cohen (Viking, $8.95). From the same house, photos About Russia by Henri Cartier-Bresson at a capitalistic $18.95. . . . Notre Dame historian Marvin R. O’Connell studies The Counter Reformation: 1559-1610 for Harper’s “Rise of Modern Europe” series ($10).

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Just Out: Joachim Fest’s Hitler is big and ambitious (Harcourt, $15). From the same house, Konrad Lorenz’ Civilized Man’s Eight Deadly Sins ($4.95). . . . John R. Coleman took a year off presiding over Haverford College to work as ditchdigger, dishwasher, and garbageman, records it all in Blue-Collar Journal for Lippincott ($6.95). . . . Jack Newfield covers a batch of legal horrors in Cruel and Unusual Justice (Holt, $7.95). . . . As long-lived as he is productive, Irving Berlin finally gets a biography, Michael Freedland’s (Stein & Day, $8.95). . . . Not many humor books on the spring lists, so maybe you’d better settle for Sybil Leek’s Zodiac of Love (Regnery, $7.95). . . . Now in a new edition, the invaluable Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church by F. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (Oxford, $35).

Richard Ney is still sore at The Wall Street Gang (Praeger, $8.95). The same publisher assembles a picture book of graffiti, Watching My Name Go By, with text by Mailer ($14.95; paper, $7.95). . . . Reputedly the sole survivor of Katyn Forest, Eugenjusz Andrei Komorowski tells the bloody story in Night Never Ending (Regnery, $8.95). . . . Henry Pleasants, member , in good standing of one of the world’s exclusive clubs, the discerning writers on pop music, presents The Great American Popular Singers (Simon & Schuster, $8.95). . . . Déjà vu of the year could be Agnew Untitled by Jules Witcover and Richard Cohen (Viking, $8.95). From the same house, photos About Russia by Henri Cartier-Bresson at a capitalistic $18.95. . . . Notre Dame historian Marvin R. O’Connell studies The Counter Reformation: 1559-1610 for Harper’s “Rise of Modern Europe” series ($10).