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Paperbacks. Chicago’s edition of The Guide to the Perplexed by Moses Maimonides is translated by Shlomo Pines and features an introductory essay by Leo Strauss (Vol. 1, $7.25; Vol. 2, $7.95). The same imprint offers John Oxenford’s translation of The Autobiography of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in two volumes ($5.25 each). . . . Out in Compass, Lionel Trilling’s The Liberal Imagination ($2.95). . . . KGB is a rundown on the Soviet spy system by John Barron (Bantam, Dec., $2.25). . . . The Last Hero is a life of Lucky Lindy by Walter Ross (Manor, Dec., $2.25). The same house reprints Colonel Robert S. Allen’s Patton’s Third U.S. Army—Lucky Forward ($1.95). . . . The Honorary Consul is a Graham Greene novel (Pocket, $1.50).

NR religion editor Malachi Martin is the author of Jesus Now (Popular, $1.95). The same house delivers itself of Schlesinger’s The Imperial Presidency ($2.45). . . . The New Yorker Book of Poems is a big collection (Morrow, Dec., $5.95). . . . Expensive ($8.95) even for an oversized paperback but still a bargain is Keith Roberts’ A Gallery of Masterpieces: From Giotto to Picasso (Praeger). . . . When Harry Truman ran off at the mouth to him, Merle Miller called it Plain Speaking (Berkley, $1.95). . . . From NAL, Ayn Rand boxed: seven volumes for $10.95. . . . Two great buys: C. S. Lewis’ seven volumes of the Narnia Chronicles, boxed, for $6.95 (Macmillan) and The Complete Sherlock Holmes in eight volumes from Berkley ($5.25). . . . Allen Drury raises the apocalyptic ante in Come Nineveh, Come Tyre (Avon, $1.75). . . . With Give Us This Day (Pocket Books, $1.95), R. F. Delderfield concludes the saga of the Swann family.

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Paperbacks. Chicago’s edition of The Guide to the Perplexed by Moses Maimonides is translated by Shlomo Pines and features an introductory essay by Leo Strauss (Vol. 1, $7.25; Vol. 2, $7.95). The same imprint offers John Oxenford’s translation of The Autobiography of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in two volumes ($5.25 each). . . . Out in Compass, Lionel Trilling’s The Liberal Imagination ($2.95). . . . KGB is a rundown on the Soviet spy system by John Barron (Bantam, Dec., $2.25). . . . The Last Hero is a life of Lucky Lindy by Walter Ross (Manor, Dec., $2.25). The same house reprints Colonel Robert S. Allen’s Patton’s Third U.S. Army—Lucky Forward ($1.95). . . . The Honorary Consul is a Graham Greene novel (Pocket, $1.50).

NR religion editor Malachi Martin is the author of Jesus Now (Popular, $1.95). The same house delivers itself of Schlesinger’s The Imperial Presidency ($2.45). . . . The New Yorker Book of Poems is a big collection (Morrow, Dec., $5.95). . . . Expensive ($8.95) even for an oversized paperback but still a bargain is Keith Roberts’ A Gallery of Masterpieces: From Giotto to Picasso (Praeger). . . . When Harry Truman ran off at the mouth to him, Merle Miller called it Plain Speaking (Berkley, $1.95). . . . From NAL, Ayn Rand boxed: seven volumes for $10.95. . . . Two great buys: C. S. Lewis’ seven volumes of the Narnia Chronicles, boxed, for $6.95 (Macmillan) and The Complete Sherlock Holmes in eight volumes from Berkley ($5.25). . . . Allen Drury raises the apocalyptic ante in Come Nineveh, Come Tyre (Avon, $1.75). . . . With Give Us This Day (Pocket Books, $1.95), R. F. Delderfield concludes the saga of the Swann family.