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ARTS AND LETTERS
Cocteau: A Biography
- Francis Steegmuller
Harold Bloom - Yeats
Robert Coles - Erik H. Erikson
Nancy Milford - Zelda
Lewis Mumford - The Myth of the Machine: The Pentagon of Power
Kenneth Rexroth - The Alternative Society

CHILDREN'S BOOKS
The Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian
- Lloyd Alexander
Vera and Bill Cleaver - Grover
Paula Fox - Blowfish Live in the Sea
Arnold Lobel - Frog and Toad Are Friends
E.B. White - The Trumpet of the Swan

FICTION
Mr. Sammler's Planet
- Saul Bellow
James Dickey - Deliverance
Shirley Hazzard - The Bay of Noon
John Updike – Bech: A Book
Eudora Welty - Losing Battles

HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY
Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom
- James MacGregor Burns
David Donald - Charles Sumner and the Rights of Man
Andy Logan - Against the Evidence: The Becker-Rosenthal Affair
Dumas Malone - Jefferson the President: First Term, 1801-1805
C.L. Sulzberger - The Last of the Giants

POETRY
To See, To Take
- Mona Van Duyn
Gregory Corso - Elegiac Feelings American
W.S. Merwin - The Carrier of Ladders
Mark Strand - Darker
May Swenson – Iconographs

THE SCIENCES
Science in the British Colonies of America
- Raymond Phineas Sterns
Gustav Eckstein - The Body Has a Head
Victor C. Ferkiss - Technological Man
Ian L. McHarg - Design with Nature
Theodore Rosebury - Life of Man

TRANSLATION
Brecht's Saint Joan of the Stockyards
- Frank Jones
Yasunari Kawabata's The Sound of The Mountain
- Edward G. Seidensticker
Joseph Barnes – Platanov’s The Fierce and Beautiful World
Richard Howard – Jean Cocteau’s Autobiography, Professional Secrets
Norman Shapiro – Feydeau’s Four Farces


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