The writings of Thomas Jefferson, including his autobiography, Notes on the State of Virginia, and various public addresses and private papers and letters, have been assembled into one volume for the Library of America's series of America's foremost authors under the editorship of Jefferson scholar Merrill D. Peterson [$30.00]. Having achieved the bestseller list with her novel "...And Ladies of the Club," Harper & Row has reissued an earlier nonfiction work by Helen Hooven Santmyer entitled Ohio Town, a portrait of Xenia, the town where Miss Santmyer has spent her long life [$14.95]. The early days of baseball are the subject of Lawrence S. Hitter's The Glory of Their Times, which Morrow has republished in a new and enlarged edition [$15.95]. Pantheon is offering a paperback edition of Gabriel Kolko's Main Currents in Modern American History, in which the historian scans the key decisions and developments in economics, politics, and foreign policy since 1876 [$10.95]. Two new Scribner's paperback reprints are W.A. Swanberg's First Blood: The Story of Fort Sumter, which Time magazine hailed as "the most readable, most cohesive account of Sumter" [$12.95], and Douglas C. Jones' fictional account of The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer, described by the Washington Post as "good courtroom cliff-hanging" [$8.95]. Kentucky has new editions of three works dealing with the experiences of American soldiers in World War II, all cloth editions. The respective volumes are Frank F. Mathias's G.I. Jive: An Army Bandsman in World War II, William R. Dunn's Fighter Pilot: The First American Ace of World War II, and Philip Ardery's Bomber Pilot: A Memoir of World War II [$18.00 each]. Illinois is offering a paperback edition of Norm Cohen's Long Steel Rail: The Railroad in American Folksong, a volume in the series Music in American Life [$17.50]. Margaret W. Rossiter's Women Scientists in America: Struggles and Strategies to 1940 is available as a Johns Hopkins Paperback [$10.95]. Nebraska has come out with a new edition of LeRoy R. Hafen and Francis Marion Young's Fort Laramie and the Pageant of the West, 1834—1890 [$24.95 cloth, $8.95 paper ].Speaking for Ourselves: Women of the South, a collection of interviews and first-person accounts by 40 Southern women, edited by Maxine Alexander is a recent Pantheon paperback [$10.95]. A new Fireside Book is Pearl Byrd Foster's Classic American Cooking, with recipes ranging from acorn squash baked with pineapple to zucchini nut bread [$9.95].