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October Books: There’s No Such Thing as a Free Lunch, proclaims Milton Friedman as he collects his essays for Open Court ($8.95; paper, $2.95). The same house offers Russell Kirk’s The Roots of American Order ($15) It used to be a hell of a town, as Roger Whitehouse proves with hundreds of 1850-1915 photos of New York: Sunshine and Shadow (Harper, $12.50). The same house assembles a slim collection of Mother Teresa’s writings in A Gift for God ($3.95) George (Sexual Suicide) Gilder now takes aim at The Unmarried Man (Quadrangle, $7.95).For the dirty-old-man set, 82-year-old Henry Miller agonizes over his young mistress to the point of Insomnia (Doubleday, $10). For the same house, poet Robert Fitzgerald does new renderings of The Iliad and The Odyssey ($12.50 each).Eugene Genovese pursues his studies of the antebellum South in Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made (Pantheon, $17.50).

Christmas Gift Books: Stunning photos in Ansel Adams: Images 1923-1974 (N.Y. Graphic, Sept.; $65 to Jan. 1, then $75).J. Anderson Black’s Your Irish Ancestors is an illustrated history of the great families. But shouldn’t it be called Every Man a King (Two Continents, Oct., $14.95)? From Putnam in October: Atlas of the Second World War, edited by Peter Young ($17.95); Early Russian Architecture by Hubert Faensen and Vladimir Ivanov ($37.50); Great Books and Book Collectors by Alan G. Thomas ($35); The World of Steam Locomotives by Gustavo Reder ($40); and The English Country House by Olive Cook ($14.95). Breathtaking is Christopher Brooke’s The Monastic World (Random, Nov., $35).

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October Books: There’s No Such Thing as a Free Lunch, proclaims Milton Friedman as he collects his essays for Open Court ($8.95; paper, $2.95). The same house offers Russell Kirk’s The Roots of American Order ($15) It used to be a hell of a town, as Roger Whitehouse proves with hundreds of 1850-1915 photos of New York: Sunshine and Shadow (Harper, $12.50). The same house assembles a slim collection of Mother Teresa’s writings in A Gift for God ($3.95) George (Sexual Suicide) Gilder now takes aim at The Unmarried Man (Quadrangle, $7.95).For the dirty-old-man set, 82-year-old Henry Miller agonizes over his young mistress to the point of Insomnia (Doubleday, $10). For the same house, poet Robert Fitzgerald does new renderings of The Iliad and The Odyssey ($12.50 each).Eugene Genovese pursues his studies of the antebellum South in Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made (Pantheon, $17.50).

Christmas Gift Books: Stunning photos in Ansel Adams: Images 1923-1974 (N.Y. Graphic, Sept.; $65 to Jan. 1, then $75).J. Anderson Black’s Your Irish Ancestors is an illustrated history of the great families. But shouldn’t it be called Every Man a King (Two Continents, Oct., $14.95)? From Putnam in October: Atlas of the Second World War, edited by Peter Young ($17.95); Early Russian Architecture by Hubert Faensen and Vladimir Ivanov ($37.50); Great Books and Book Collectors by Alan G. Thomas ($35); The World of Steam Locomotives by Gustavo Reder ($40); and The English Country House by Olive Cook ($14.95). Breathtaking is Christopher Brooke’s The Monastic World (Random, Nov., $35).