 | The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst
Buy used from: £23.31 Type "Bible"
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 | The Penguin Dictionary of Symbols (Penguin Dictionaries) by Alain Gheerbrant
Buy new: £10.70 / Used from: £9.70 Perfect reference for any symbols
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 | A2Z and More Signs by Julian Rothenstein
Buy new: £10.87 / Used from: £7.15 Eye candy - if your into old type and efemera
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 | How to be a Graphic Designer, Without Losing Your Soul by Adrian Shaughnessy
Buy new: £9.98 / Used from: £8.78 Ever wondered about graphic designers soul?
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 | The Art of Looking Sideways by Alan Fletcher
Buy new: £15.47 / Used from: £12.50 Eye and brain candy
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 | Genius Moves: 100 Icons of Graphic Design / Steven Heller and Mirko Iliac. by S Heller
Buy used from: £20.59 Related designs from the past and future
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 | Handwritten: Expressive Lettering in the Digital Age by Steven Heller
Buy used from: £19.50 Hundreds of examples of the genre handwritten typographics
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 | Marks of Excellence: History and Taxonomy of Trademarks by Per Mollerup
Buy used from: £44.41 Quality all the way, not packed with thousands of bad and stupid logos
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 | Paul Rand by Armin Hofmann
Buy new: £14.47 / Used from: £11.99 One of my heroes
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 | Sagmeister : Made You Look: Another Self-indulgent Design Monograph: Made You Look - Another Self-indulgent Design Monograph by Peter Hall
Buy used from: £49.24 Another of my heroes
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 | Hand Job: A Catalog of Type by Michael Perry
Buy new: £15.45 / Used from: £13.91 Eye candy
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 | Neubau Welt by Stefan Gandl
Buy new: £22.52 / Used from: £12.33 Silhouetts of basicly everything in a nice package
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 | What Is a Designer: Things, Places, Messages by Norman Potter
Buy new: £6.45 / Used from: £8.68 When you are tired of pictures and need input
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 | "Ways of Seeing": Based on the BBC Television Series by John Berger
Buy used from: £2.95 Seeing comes before words
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 | The Little Know-it-all: Common Sense for Designers by Robert Klanten
Buy new: £16.44 / Used from: £12.23 Everything you need to know in an effective little book
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 | The Story of Writing: Alphabets, Hieroglyphs and Pictograms by Andrew Robinson
Buy new: £7.74 / Used from: £6.25 Cuneiform, Egyptian and Mayan hieroglyphs to alphabets and the scripts of China and Japan
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 | Typographic Systems by Kimberly Elam
Buy new: £7.44 / Used from: £11.35 Principles of organizing type
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 | Grid Systems: Principles of Organizing Type (Design Briefs) by Kimberly Elam
Buy new: £8.68 / Used from: £7.00 Typographic composition for designers
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 | Bruno Monguzzi: A Designer's Perspective (Issues in Cultural Theory) by Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo
Buy new: £13.50 / Used from: £28.15 "I just would like to contribute a little silence"
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 | A Century of Graphic Design: Graphic Design Pioneers of the 20th Century by Jeremy Aynsley
Buy used from: £14.11 The most significant themes and genres in graphic design during the 20th century
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 | Ready Made: How to Make (Almost) Everything by Shoshana Berger
For fun and inspiration
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 | Postal Seance by Henrik Drescher
Buy used from: £26.95 Creating letters for the dead - and mailing them! Strange and funny project
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 | Designing Brand Identity: A Complete Guide to Creating, Building, and Maintaining Strong Brands by Alina Wheeler
Buy used from: £30.52 Lots of information about the many sides of brand identity with lots of cases
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 | The Brand Gap: How to Bridge the Distance Between Business Strategy and Design : a Whiteboard Overview by Marty Neumeier
Buy new: £8.29 / Used from: £7.98 A little book about what is a Brand, explained quickly and visualy
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 | ?WhatIf! How to Start a Creative Revolution at Work by Dave Allan
Buy used from: £9.49 Funny and practical way of improve creativity!
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