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Just Out: Former Communist leader Roger Garaudy calls it Crisis in Communism, but the title sounds too good to be true (Grove, $7.95; paper, $2.45). . . . Narrative Poems by C. S. Lewis is edited by Walter Hooper (Harcourt, $5.95). . . . Most of Dylan Thomas’ Early Prose Writings appear here for the first time in America (New Directions, $8.75).

Paul-Henri Spaak dubs his memoirs The Continuing Battle (Lippincott, $12.50). . . . Philippe Alexandre’s The Duel, a bestseller in France, explores the de Gaulle-Pompidou relationship (Houghton, $7.95). . . . Not to Disturb is the new Muriel Spark novel (Viking, $4.95). . . . General Maxwell Taylor pens his autobiography, Swords and Ploughshares (Norton, $10). . . . The House of Northcliffe is a biography of the British press czar by Paul Ferris (World, $10).

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Just Out: Former Communist leader Roger Garaudy calls it Crisis in Communism, but the title sounds too good to be true (Grove, $7.95; paper, $2.45). . . . Narrative Poems by C. S. Lewis is edited by Walter Hooper (Harcourt, $5.95). . . . Most of Dylan Thomas’ Early Prose Writings appear here for the first time in America (New Directions, $8.75).

Paul-Henri Spaak dubs his memoirs The Continuing Battle (Lippincott, $12.50). . . . Philippe Alexandre’s The Duel, a bestseller in France, explores the de Gaulle-Pompidou relationship (Houghton, $7.95). . . . Not to Disturb is the new Muriel Spark novel (Viking, $4.95). . . . General Maxwell Taylor pens his autobiography, Swords and Ploughshares (Norton, $10). . . . The House of Northcliffe is a biography of the British press czar by Paul Ferris (World, $10).