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Just Out: Hard to resist a title like How I Feed My Family on $16 a Week by Jo Ann York (Coward, $5.95). . . . Revisionism goes pictorial in A. J. P. Taylor’s The Second World War (Putnam, $17.50). . . . Thor Heyerdahl honeymooned on Fatu-Hiva in his pre-Kon-Tiki days, tells about life on this idyllic but plague-ridden South Sea isle for Doubleday ($10). . . . For those who might take inspiration from a week with Gerald Ford and/or John Hersey, there’s The President (Knopf, $6.95; paperback, $2.95). . . . Word and picture parade: The Monarchs of England by Jean Morris (McKay, $14.95 to Jan. 1, then $17.50).

Paperbacks. Schirmer Books, new music line, debuts impressively with H. L. Mencken on Music ($3.95) and the biography of jazz-age cornetist Bix Beiderbecke that was nominated for a National Book Award, Bix: Man and Legend by Richard M. Sudhalter and Philip R. Evans ($4.95) . . . From Capricorn comes Walter Lacquer’s cultural history of Weimar (Oct., $3.50) and Volumes I & II of J. C. Furnas’ Great Times: An Informal Social History of the United States 1914-1929 (Oct., $3.95 each). . . . The New York Times Nostalgic Years in Song arranges 87 favorites from 1900-1940 for piano, organ, and guitar (Quadrangle, Sept., $7.95). . . . Vintage reprints for September include Joachim Fest’s Hitler ($5.95), Mary Renault’s The Last of the Wine ($2.95), and Robert Caro’s life of Robert Moses, The Power Broker ($7.95). In November, Vintage brings back three by Wodehouse at $1.95 each: The Code of the Woosters, Leave It to Psmith, and Mulliner Nights. . . . NR contributor Miles Copeland’s Beyond Cloak & Dagger: Inside the CIA now reprinted by Pinnacle ($1.75).

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Just Out: Hard to resist a title like How I Feed My Family on $16 a Week by Jo Ann York (Coward, $5.95). . . . Revisionism goes pictorial in A. J. P. Taylor’s The Second World War (Putnam, $17.50). . . . Thor Heyerdahl honeymooned on Fatu-Hiva in his pre-Kon-Tiki days, tells about life on this idyllic but plague-ridden South Sea isle for Doubleday ($10). . . . For those who might take inspiration from a week with Gerald Ford and/or John Hersey, there’s The President (Knopf, $6.95; paperback, $2.95). . . . Word and picture parade: The Monarchs of England by Jean Morris (McKay, $14.95 to Jan. 1, then $17.50).

Paperbacks. Schirmer Books, new music line, debuts impressively with H. L. Mencken on Music ($3.95) and the biography of jazz-age cornetist Bix Beiderbecke that was nominated for a National Book Award, Bix: Man and Legend by Richard M. Sudhalter and Philip R. Evans ($4.95) . . . From Capricorn comes Walter Lacquer’s cultural history of Weimar (Oct., $3.50) and Volumes I & II of J. C. Furnas’ Great Times: An Informal Social History of the United States 1914-1929 (Oct., $3.95 each). . . . The New York Times Nostalgic Years in Song arranges 87 favorites from 1900-1940 for piano, organ, and guitar (Quadrangle, Sept., $7.95). . . . Vintage reprints for September include Joachim Fest’s Hitler ($5.95), Mary Renault’s The Last of the Wine ($2.95), and Robert Caro’s life of Robert Moses, The Power Broker ($7.95). In November, Vintage brings back three by Wodehouse at $1.95 each: The Code of the Woosters, Leave It to Psmith, and Mulliner Nights. . . . NR contributor Miles Copeland’s Beyond Cloak & Dagger: Inside the CIA now reprinted by Pinnacle ($1.75).