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WHAT'S GOT YOUR BACK UP? by Bill Mouldin (146 pp.; Harper; $3.95). Herblock is clearly Mauldin's master and Daumier his god; this collection of his work proves that he has edged past the one and is moving determinedly, in quality of line and force of wit, toward the other. The best cartoon book of the season...
MASTERPIECES OF JAPANESE SCULPTURE, with text by J. Edward Kidder Jr. (328 pp.; Tuttle; $27.50). A large, well-illustrated historical survey; the photographs, most of them black and white, are superb, and the compilers have broken up what might have been a tedious procession of figures with excellent detailed closeups. The subjects, of course, run to delicate, serene Buddhas and wrathy temple guards, and they are delightful...
...ARTS OF ASSYRIA, by André Parrot (383 pp.; Golden Press; $25). The extraordinary book-by-book progress through the history of art, proposed by France's Minister of Culture André Malraux and begun this year in the superb volume Sumer: The Dawn of Art (TIME, June 2), is continued with an equally lavish book on Assyria. The grim, skilled art of the warrior peoples who fought in the Mesopotamian valleys-it includes magnificent lion hunts as well as gloomy strings of captives-has never been presented better. Familiar bas-reliefs are well done in black and white...
...SHIP, by Björn Landström (309 pp.; Doubleday; $14.95). For most boys and a few fortunate men, among life's compelling questions are the position of the guns of Nelson's Victory, the difference between a galleon and a galeass, and the vexing matter of how oars were banked on biremes. With authoritative information or thoughtful supposition, Author Landström deals with such matters in a magnificent history of man's water conveyances, from the dugout to the nuclear submarine. The handsome sectional and perspective drawings...
PICASSO'S PICASSOS, with text and photographs by David Douglas Duncan (270 pp.; Harper; $24.95). Art's most illustrious living grandee has permitted Photographer Duncan, a friend and worshiper, to photograph some 500 paintings, drawings and collages that he keeps in his villa on the French Riviera. From this treasure trove, Duncan photographed 103 in color. His text conveys a sense of intimacy, largely by the "I said to Picasso" method...