Recent Books

Non-Fiction

THE TRANQUIL HEART -- Catherine Carswell--Harcourt, Brace ($3.50). Portrait of Giovanni Boccaccio, by his first female biographer, who emphasizes not only his authorship of the Decameron 600 years ago but his importance as a political figure.

INSIDE OUT--An Introduction to Autobiography--Sheridan House ($5). A book about autobiographies (410 of them in 23 languages), indispensable to libraries, for whom it is available in microfilm as well as book form. In microfilm, this 713-page, 5-lb. volume, is only 48 feet of 16 mm. film (the width of home cinema film) reeled into a spool the size of a typewriter ribbon, with its tin container weighs one-quarter pound. Microfilm copies of rare books are used in many libraries; this is the first new book to be issued in that form.

SOUTH BY THUNDERBIRD -- Hudson Strode--Random House ($3). Record of anobservant writer's trip by commercial airlines from Miami to Buenos Aires and back. Illustrated by photographs.

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