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Just Out: If you can bear it, there’s The New York Times Report from Red China (Quadrangle, $6.95). Read all about Scotty’s operation! . . . For the ultimate in gift books (and in price), Roberto Salvini’s The Sistine Chapel, in two volumes, boasts over three hundred plates, mostly in full color (Abrams, $275) . . . Lost New York by Nathan Silver is a memorable photographic paean to vanished urban beauty (Schocken paperback, $5.95).

January Books: In Mussolini and Fascism: The View from America John P. Diggins reminds us that II Duce was a hero to Lippmann, Hearst and many who v/ere polled by Dr. Gallup (Princeton, $16.50) . . . Latest volume of de Gaulle’s autobiography is Memoirs of Hope (Simon & Schuster, $10) . . . Every Other Inch a Lady is Bea Lillie’s memoir (Doubleday, $5.95). The same publisher collects some Russell Baker pieces in Poor Russell’s Almanac ($5.95).

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Just Out: If you can bear it, there’s The New York Times Report from Red China (Quadrangle, $6.95). Read all about Scotty’s operation! . . . For the ultimate in gift books (and in price), Roberto Salvini’s The Sistine Chapel, in two volumes, boasts over three hundred plates, mostly in full color (Abrams, $275) . . . Lost New York by Nathan Silver is a memorable photographic paean to vanished urban beauty (Schocken paperback, $5.95).

January Books: In Mussolini and Fascism: The View from America John P. Diggins reminds us that II Duce was a hero to Lippmann, Hearst and many who v/ere polled by Dr. Gallup (Princeton, $16.50) . . . Latest volume of de Gaulle’s autobiography is Memoirs of Hope (Simon & Schuster, $10) . . . Every Other Inch a Lady is Bea Lillie’s memoir (Doubleday, $5.95). The same publisher collects some Russell Baker pieces in Poor Russell’s Almanac ($5.95).