Here’s a list of recommended books on typography, book design, callligraphy & lettering and type design.

Typography

Type & typography
Phil Baines & Andrew Haslam
New York: Watson-Guptill, 2002

The elements of typographic style
Robert Bringhurst
Vancouver: Hartley & Marks, Publishers, 1997

An essay on typography
Eric Gill
New York: D R Godine, 1988

Modern typography: an essay in critical history
Robin Kinross
London, England: Hyphen Press, 1992

Texts on type: critical writings on typography
Steven Heller, Philip Meggs, editors
New York: All Worth Press, 2001

The new typography: a handbook for modern designers
Jan Tschichold, translated by Ruari McLean
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995

The Thames and Hudson manual of typography
Ruari McLean
London: Thames and Hudson

Typography today, new edition
Helmut Schmid
Tokyo: Seibundo Shinkosha, 2003

TypoGraphic Writing: selected writing from thirty years of TypoGraphic, the journal of the International Society of Typographic Designers
David Jury, editor
Stround, England: ISTD, 2001

About face: reviving the rules of typography
David Jury
Mies, Switzerland: RotoVision, 2002

Book design

Book design in switzerland
Jost Hochuli
Switzerland: Arts Council of Switzerland, 1993

The form of the book: essays on the morality of good design
Jan Tschichold
Vancouver: Hartley & Marks, Publishers, 1991

Methods of book design (3rd edition)
Hugh Williamson
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983

Designing books: practice and theory
Jost Hochuli & Robin Kinross

Calligraphy and lettering

Writing & illuminating & lettering
Edward Johnston
London: Adam & Charles, 1977

Letterwork: creative letterforms in graphic design
Brody Neuenschwander
London: Phaidon Press, 1994

Letterletter: an inconsistent collection of tentative theories that do not claim any other authority than that of common sense
Gerrit Noordzij
Vancouver: Hartley & Marks, Publisher, 2000

The stroke of the pen: fundamental aspects of western writing
Lettering design: form & skill in the design & use of letterforms
Gerrit Noordzij
The Hague: Koninklijke Academie can Beeldende Kunsten

Lettering design: form & skill in the design & use of letterforms
Michael Harvey
London, England: Bodley Head, 1975

Schrift, klana, bild / The music of lettering
Pott, Gottfried
Mainz, Verlag Hermann Schmidt, 1995

Creative lettering today: calligraphy in the graphic arts, drawing and design, digital letterforms, carving letters in stone and wood
Michael Harvey
New York: Lyon & Burford Publishers, 2002

Type design

Twentieth century type designers, new edition
Sebastian Carter
Aldershot, England: Lund Humpheies, 2002

Type: hot designers make cool fonts
Allan Haley
Gloucester, Massachusetts: Rockport Publishers, 1998

Metro letters: a typeface for the twin cities
Deborah Littlejohn, editor
Minneapolis: Design Institute, University of Minnesota, 2003

Haagse letters: letterontwerpen aan de Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten Den Haag
Mathieu Lommen & Peter Verheul
The Hague: Uitgeverij de Buitenkant, 1996
(in Dutch)

Letters of credit: a view of type design
Walter Tracy
London: Gordon Fraser, 1986

Typographically speaking: the art of Matthew Carter
Margaret Re
Baltimore: University of Maryland, 2002

Johnston’s Underground type
Justin Howes
Middlesex, England: Capital Transport, 2000

The nymph and the grot: the revival of the sanserif letter
James Mosley
London: Friends of the St Bride Printing Library, 1999

Type, sign, symbol
Adrian Frutiger
Zurich: ABC Editions, 1980

Twentieth century type (remix)
Lewis Blackwell
London: Laurence King, 1998

Language, culture, type
John D. Berry, editor
New York: ATypI, 2002

Counterpunch: making type in the sixteenth century, designing typefaces now
Fred Smeijers & Robin Kinross
London, England: Hyphen Press, 1996

An atlas of typeforms (2nd edition)
Alan Bartram & James Sutton
Hartfordshire, England: Wordsworth Editions, 1988