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Just Out: John Barron’s KGB: The Secret Work of Soviet Secret Agents is getting a big push from Reader’s Digest Press ($10.95) . . .. For the paranoia market, there’s State Secrets: Police Surveillance in America by Paul Cowan, Nick Egleson, and Nat Hentoff (Holt, $10) . . . . Pop historian E. R. Chamberlin chronicles The Fall of the House of Borgia (Dial, $10). … By James R. Mellow, Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein & Company (Praeger, $12.95). . . . Leonard S. Bernstein portrays the garment industry with flair in ‘‘How’s Business?” “Don’t Ask” (Dutton, $6.95). . . . Ernest Samuels collates The Education of Henry Adams with his own annotations and Adams’ notes (Houghton, $10). The same house unveils another Louis Auchincloss novel of upper class Waspdom, The Partners ($6.95).

Looking toward March. Michael Novak ruminates about the place of the Presidency in Choosing Our King (Macmillan, $7.95). . . . Three from St. Martin’s: Samuel Johnson: The Complete English Poems ($7.95), Andrew Marvell: The Complete Poems ($7.95), and John Donne: The Complete English Poems ($10.95). . . . Latest installment (1933-35) of Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s letters and diaries is Locked Rooms and Open Doors (Harcourt, $7.95). The same house offers a Mary McCarthy collection, The Seventeenth Degree. Mostly screeds about Vietnam ($7.95).

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Just Out: John Barron’s KGB: The Secret Work of Soviet Secret Agents is getting a big push from Reader’s Digest Press ($10.95) . . .. For the paranoia market, there’s State Secrets: Police Surveillance in America by Paul Cowan, Nick Egleson, and Nat Hentoff (Holt, $10) . . . . Pop historian E. R. Chamberlin chronicles The Fall of the House of Borgia (Dial, $10). … By James R. Mellow, Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein & Company (Praeger, $12.95). . . . Leonard S. Bernstein portrays the garment industry with flair in ‘‘How’s Business?” “Don’t Ask” (Dutton, $6.95). . . . Ernest Samuels collates The Education of Henry Adams with his own annotations and Adams’ notes (Houghton, $10). The same house unveils another Louis Auchincloss novel of upper class Waspdom, The Partners ($6.95).

Looking toward March. Michael Novak ruminates about the place of the Presidency in Choosing Our King (Macmillan, $7.95). . . . Three from St. Martin’s: Samuel Johnson: The Complete English Poems ($7.95), Andrew Marvell: The Complete Poems ($7.95), and John Donne: The Complete English Poems ($10.95). . . . Latest installment (1933-35) of Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s letters and diaries is Locked Rooms and Open Doors (Harcourt, $7.95). The same house offers a Mary McCarthy collection, The Seventeenth Degree. Mostly screeds about Vietnam ($7.95).