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Just Out: Philip Roth moves from Portnoy to Tricky, a new novel about a White House inhabitant described by Random House, the publisher, as a “self pronounced legal whiz and peace loving ‘Quaker’—and somehow President of the United States of America.” Look for big sales. First printing: fifty thousand. . . . Hermann Hesse’s Autobiographical Writings are translated by Denver Lindley (Farrar, $8.95). . . . Americans tuning up for revolution occupy R. Serge Denisoff in Great Day Coming: Folk Music and the American Left (Illinois, $7.50).

Macmillan, publishing A W. E. B. DuBois Reader, identifies the author as “perhaps the greatest black man who ever lived” ($7.95; paper, $1.95). The same publisher invites us to a good old-fashioned family songfest with The Liberated Woman’s Song Book, featuring 65 of your favorites including “Free at Last!” and “I Never Will Marry.” Assembled by Jerry Silverman. No castrato, he ($6.95; paper, $3.95). . . . Riding the Storm, 1956-59 is the fourth volume of Harold Macmillan’s memoirs (Harper, $15). . . . Henry Miller found the right publisher for My Life and Times, Playboy Press ($17.95).

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Just Out: Philip Roth moves from Portnoy to Tricky, a new novel about a White House inhabitant described by Random House, the publisher, as a “self pronounced legal whiz and peace loving ‘Quaker’—and somehow President of the United States of America.” Look for big sales. First printing: fifty thousand. . . . Hermann Hesse’s Autobiographical Writings are translated by Denver Lindley (Farrar, $8.95). . . . Americans tuning up for revolution occupy R. Serge Denisoff in Great Day Coming: Folk Music and the American Left (Illinois, $7.50).

Macmillan, publishing A W. E. B. DuBois Reader, identifies the author as “perhaps the greatest black man who ever lived” ($7.95; paper, $1.95). The same publisher invites us to a good old-fashioned family songfest with The Liberated Woman’s Song Book, featuring 65 of your favorites including “Free at Last!” and “I Never Will Marry.” Assembled by Jerry Silverman. No castrato, he ($6.95; paper, $3.95). . . . Riding the Storm, 1956-59 is the fourth volume of Harold Macmillan’s memoirs (Harper, $15). . . . Henry Miller found the right publisher for My Life and Times, Playboy Press ($17.95).