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This list of books was compiled from a variety of sources and includes OS/2 related books that were published within the last couple of years. For the telephone numbers of the publishers, see: Telephone & Fax Numbers
Note: On February 14, 1995, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. announced that it would purchase Van Nostrand Reinhold (VNR)'s OS/2 computer book list (source: IBM Independent Vendor League)
10 Minute Guide to OS/2 Warp by Jennifer Fulton Que ISBN 1-567-61650-X 1995 180 pages $12.99 (U.S.) $16.99 (Canada) £9.95 (U.K.) Advanced OS/2 Presentation Manager Programming by Thomas E. Burge and Joseph Celi John Wiley & Sons ISBN 0-471-59198-X 1993 369 pages $34.95 (U.S.) Application Development Using OS/2 REXX by Anthony Rudd John Wiley & Sons ISBN 0-471-60691-X $39.95 (U.S.) The Art of OS/2 Warp Programming (w/disk) by Kathleen Panov, Arthur Panov, and Larry Salamone, Jr. John Wiley & Sons ISBN 0-471-08633-9 1995 751 pages $44.95 (U.S.) $62.95 (Canada) Byte's OS/2 Programmer's Cookbook (w/CD) by Kathy Ivens and Bruce Hailberg Osbourne McGraw-Hill ISBN 0-07-882039-1 1994 255 pages $34.95 (U.S.) C and C++ Programming in the OS/2 Environment by V. Mitra Gopaul Van Nostrand Reinhold ISBN 0-442-01240-3 $39.95 (U.S.) Client/Server Programming with OS/2 2.1, Third Edition by Robert Orfali and Dan Harkey Van Nostrand Reinhold ISBN 0-442-01833-9 1993 1,118 pages $39.95 (U.S.) Client Server Survival Guide for OS/2 by Robert Orfali and Dan Harkey Van Nostrand Reinhold ISBN 0-442-01798-7 1994 970 pages $39.95 (U.S.) Client Server: The 10% You Need To Know by Randy Langel IBM ISBN (N/A) $29.95 (U.S.) The Complete Idiot's Guide to OS/2 Warp by Jennifer Fulton Alpha Books ISBN 1-56671-589-9 1995 361 pages $16.99 (U.S.) $23.95 (Canada) £13.95 (U.K.) Connecting with LAN Server 4.0 by Barry Nance Ziff-Davis ISBN 1-56276-270-2 February 1995 337 pages $29.95 (U.S.) $43.95 (Canada) £27.49 (U.K.) The Design of OS/2, Second Edition by Michael Kogan & Harvey Dietel Addison-Wesley ISBN 0-201-52886-X November 1995 460 pages Designing High-Powered OS/2 Warp Applications by David E. Reich John Wiley & Sons ISBN 0-471-11586-X May 1995 336 pages $34.95 (U.S.) Developing Games for OS/2 Warp by Timothy D. Weaver, Jim Riblett John Wiley & Sons ISBN 0-471-14684-6 March 1996 $44.95 (U.S.) Developing Multimedia Applications under OS/2 (w/CD) by William W. Lawton, Bradley Noe, and Marcelo R. Lopez, Jr. Van Nostrand Reinhold ISBN 0-471-13168-7 January 1995 810 pages $39.95 (U.S.) $55.95 (Canada) Dynamic Data Exchange for OS/2 (w/disk) by Glenn T. Puchtell Van Nostrand Reinhold ISBN 0-442-01949-1 1995 172 pages $36.95 (U.S.) The Essential Distributed Objects Survival Guide by Robert Orfali, Dan Harkey and Jeri Edwards John Wiley & Sons ISBN 0-471-12993-3 IBM Puborder: SR28-5898 October 1995 604 pages $29.95 (U.S.) $39.50 (Canada) Essential OpenDoc: Cross-Platform Development for OS/2, MacIntosh, and Windows Programmers (w/disk) by Anthony Meadow, Jesse Feiler Addison-Wesley ISBN 0-201-47958-3 March 1996 $39.95 (U.S.) Getting to Know OS/2 Warp 4 by Neil Stokes, et. al Prentice Hall ISBN 0-13-842147-1 IBM SG24-4758-00 November 1996 621 pages $39.95 (U.S.) $55.95 (Canada) GUI-OOUI War: Windows vs. OS/2: The Designer's Guide to Human-Computer Interfaces by Theo S. Mandel Van Nostrand Reinhold ISBN 0-442-01750-2 1993 416 pages $29.95 (U.S.) High Performance Graphics With OS/2 by Kelvin Lawrence, John Webb John Wiley & Sons ISBN 0471148938 July 1, 1996 $49.95 (U.S.) The IBM LAN Server Sourcebook by Pat Scherer and Charlie Brown John Wiley & Sons ISBN 0-471-13170-9 IBM Pub Order #SR28-5960-00 1996 $34.95 (U.S.) Inside OS/2 Warp, Version 3 (w/CD) by Mark Minasi, Bill Camarda, Bruce Hallberg, et al. New Riders Publishing ISBN 1-56205-378-7 December 1994 1104 pages $39.99 (U.S.) $53.99 (Canada) £37.49 (U.K.) Instant OS/2! Porting C Applications to OS/2 by Len Dorfman McGraw-Hill ISBN 0-8306-4522-5 1995 416 pages $34.95 (U.S.) Introduction to PL/I, Algorithms, and Structured Programming (includes info and examples for OS/2) by R. A. Vowels ISBN 0-9596384-7-4 1995 612 pages Lotus Notes, Plain & Simple by Rupert Clayton Sybex ISBN 0-7821-1753-8 1995 365 pages $19.99 (U.S.) Lotus Notes Release 3 in the OS/2 Environment (w/disk) by Tony Walsh Van Nostrand Reinhold ISBN 0-442-01890-8 1995 346 pages $36.95 (U.S.) Making OS/2 Work for You: Installing, Configuring & Using OS/2 Warp by Doug Azzarito & Green John Wiley & Sons ISBN 0-471-06083-6 April 1995 575 pages $29.95 (U.S.) Mastering Make, 2nd Edition A Guide to Building Programs on DOS, OS/2 and UNIX systems by Clovis Tondo, Andrew Nathanson & Eden Yount Prentice Hall ISBN 0-131-21906-5 1994 310 pages $25.75 (U.S.) Mastering OS/2 REXX by Gabriel F. Gargiulo John Wiley & Sons ISBN 0-471-51901-4 417 pages $39.95 (U.S.) Mastering OS/2 Warp Version 3 (w/CD) by Peter Dyson Sybex ISBN 0-7821-1663-9 March 1995 1245 pages $39.99 (U.S.) Navigating the Internet with OS/2 Warp by Herb Tyson Sams Publishing ISBN 0-672-30719-7 IBM SR28-5665 May 1995 437 pages $25.00 (U.S.) $34.95 (Canada) £19.50 (U.K.) Object-Oriented Programming Using SOM and DSOM by Christina Lau John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN 0-471-13123-7 1995 IBM SR28-557000 $39.95 (U.S.) Object REXX by Example by Gwen L. Veneskey, Will Trosky & John Urbaniak Aviar, Inc. ISBN 0-652329-0-5 May 1996 331 pages $34.95 (U.S.) Objects for OS/2 by Scott H. Danforth, Paul Koenen, and Bruce Tate Van Nostrand Reinhold ISBN 0-442-01738-3 1994 446 pages $36.95 (U.S.) ODBC Solution - Open Database Connectivity in Distributed Environments by Robert Signore, John Creamer & Michael O. Stegman McGraw-Hill, Inc. ISBN 0-07-911880-1 1995 267 pages $55.75 (U.S.) Official Guide to Using OS/2 Warp by Karla Stagray & Linda S. Rogers IDG Books Worldwide, Inc. ISBN 1-56884-466-2 1995 507 pages $29.99 (U.S.) $39.99 (Canada) £28.99 (U.K.) Opendoc Patterns: Designing Parts for OS/2, Windows, Unix and the Mac by Robert L. Tycast, Kirk Searls John Wiley & Sons ISBN 0471148350 July 1, 1996 $39.95 (U.S.) OS/2 2.1 Application Programmer's Guide (w/disk) by Jody Kelly, Craig Swearingen, Dawn Bezviner, and Theodore Shrader Van Nostrand Reinhold ISBN 0-442-01736-7 1994 644 pages $34.95 (U.S.) OS/2 2.1 Rexx Handbook, Basics, Applications and Tips by Hallette German Van Nostrand Reinhold ISBN 0-442-01734-0 $34.95 (U.S.) OS/2 2.1 Workplace Shell Programming (w/disk) by Stephano Maruzzi Random House ISBN 0-679-79162-0 1994 720 pages $44 (U.S.) $58 (Canada) OS/2 and NetWare Programming by Lori Gauthier, Morgan Adair, and Wayne Taylor Van Nostrand Reinhold ISBN 0-442-01815-0 November 1994 457 pages $36.95 (U.S.) OS/2 and Warp - Productivity Tool Kit (w/CD) by John Johnston McGraw-Hill, Inc. ISBN 0-07-912028-8 1995 585 pages $39.95 OS/2 C++ Class Library: Power GUI Programming with CSet++ by Kevin Leong, William Laws, Robert Love, Hiroshi Tsuji, and Bruce Olson Van Nostrand Reinhold ISBN 0-472-01795-2 1995 879 pages $36.95 (U.S.) OS/2 Certification Handbook (w/CD) by Bruce Hallberg and Kathy Ivens New Riders Publishing ISBN 1-56205-407-4 1995 1024 pages $89.99 (U.S.) OS/2 for Windows Users by Sharon Crawford & Charlie Russel Sybex ISBN 0-7821-1528-4 1994 275 pages $19.99 (U.S.) OS/2 LAN Server: The Do-It-Yourselfer's Guide to Perfect Networking by Pat Scherer Van Nostrand Reinhold ISBN 0-442-01958-0 March 1995 OS/2 Online Book Collection (CD) IBM ISBN (N/A) $34.95 (U.S.) OS/2 Power User's Reference (w/CD) by Mark T. Chapman McGraw-Hill ISBN 0-07-912218-3 January 1996 476 pages $44.95 (U.S.) OS/2 Presentation Manager GPI, 2nd Edition: Graphics Programming Guide to the 32-bit Operating System by Graham C.E. Winn Van Nostrand Reinhold ISBN 0-442-01939-4 $39.95 (U.S.) OS/2 Presentation Manager Programming for COBOL Programmers, Revised Edition by Robert B. Chapman John Wiley & Sons ISBN 0-471-56140-1 $39.95 (U.S.) OS/2 Programmer's Desk Reference by V. Mitra Gopaul McGraw-Hill, Inc. ISBN 0-07-023748-4 1995 688 pages $44.95 (U.S.) OS/2 Quick Reference Library Volume 1: WIN Functions by Nora Scholin Van Nostrand Reinhold ISBN 0-442-01898-3 507 pages $19.95 (U.S.) OS/2 Quick Reference Library Volume 2: Message Functions by Nora Scholin Van Nostrand Reinhold ISBN (N/A) 548 pages $21.95 (U.S.) OS/2 Quick Reference Library Volume 3: Workplace Shell by Nora Scholin Van Nostrand Reinhold ISBN 0-442-01899-1 January 1995 OS/2 Quick Reference Library Volume 4: GPI Functions by Nora Scholin Van Nostrand Reinhold ISBN 0-442-01900-9 February 1995 OS/2 Quick Reference Library Volume 5: DOS Functions by Nora Scholin Van Nostrand Reinhold ISBN 0-442-01901-7 February 1995 OS/2 Quick Reference Library Volume 6: Miscellaneous Functions by Nora Scholin Van Nostrand Reinhold ISBN 0-442-01902-5 April 1995 OS/2 Warp V4 in Team: A practical book for the power-user and workgroups (w/CD) by TeamOS/2 Germany (in German only) IBM ISBN 3-932311-02-7 1997 699 pages DM 89.00 (Germany) OS/2 Warp Administrator's Survival Guide by David Kerr & Bret Curran Sams Publishing ISBN 0-672-30744-8 IBM Puborder; SR23-7222-00 December 1995 1027 pages $55.00 (U.S.) $74.95 (Canada) £49.95 (U.K.) OS/2 Warp Answers by Kathy Ivens Osborne/McGraw-Hill ISBN 0-07-882115-0 May 1995 276 pages $19.95 (U.S.) The OS/2 Warp Bible by Robert M. Albrecht & Michael Plura Abacus Books ISBN 1-55755-268-X Data Becker (Germany) ISBN 3-8158-1046-9 April 1995 $34.95 (U.S.) OS/2 Warp Connect PowerPC Edition: Operating in the New Frontier by Ken Christopher, Scott Winters, and Mary Pollak Wright IDG Books ISBN 1-56884-458-1 August 1995 476 pages $29.99 (U.S.) $42.99 (Canada) £28.99 (U.K.) OS/2 Warp Control Program API by Marc Stock John Wiley & Sons ISBN 0-471-03887-3 April 1995 376 pages $29.95 OS/2 Warp Easy Installation Guide by Jonathan Kamin Prima Computer Books ISBN 0-7615-0099-5 1995 140 pages $12.95 (U.S.) $18.95 (Canada) £11.99 (U.K.) OS/2 Warp for Dummies, 2nd Edition by Andy Rathbone IDG Books ISBN 1-56884-205-8 1995 336 pages $19.99 (U.S.) $26.99 (Canada) £18.99 (U.K.) OS/2 Warp Frequently Asked Questions (w/CD) by Michael Kaply & Timothy F. Sipples IDG Books ISBN 1-56884-472-7 IBM SR28-5882 October 1995 380 pages $29.99 (U.S.) $42.99 (Canada) £28.99 (U.K.) OS/2 Warp Goldmine (w/CD) by Carol Patton and John Oellrich John Wiley & Sons ISBN 0-471-13169-5 October 1995 700 pages $42.95 (U.S.) $60.50 (Canada) OS/2 Warp Internet Connection (w/disk) by Deborah Morrison IDG Books ISBN 1-56884-465-4 May 1995 233 pages $24.99 (U.S.) $34.99 (Canada) £23.99 (U.K.) The OS/2 Warp Internet Tour Guide by Weingarten & James Ventana Press ISBN 1-566-04270-4 July 1995 OS/2 Warp Presentation Manager API by Joel Barnum & Marc A. Stock John Wiley & Sons ISBN 0-471-03873-3 April 1995 480 pages $29.95 (U.S.) $41.95 (Canada) OS/2 Warp Presentation Manager Mentor (w/disk) by Michael Drapkin John Wiley & Sons ISBN 0-471-13167-9 October 1995 384 pages $39.95 (U.S.) $55.95 (Canada) OS/2 Warp Presentation Manager Programming for Power Programmers by Uri J. Stern & James S. Morrow John Wiley & Sons ISBN 0-471-05839-4 December 1995 554 pages $34.95 (U.S.) OS/2 Warp Productivity Tool Kit (w/CD) by John Johnston McGraw-Hill, Inc. ISBN 0-07-912028-8 1995 585 pages $39.95 (U.S.) The OS/2 Warp Programmer's Sidekick: Functions and Structures by Keith Murray and Glade Diviney Quarter Horse Software & Publications ISBN 0-9647472-8-6 1995 590 pages $39.95 (U.S.) $53.95 (Canada) OS/2 Warp Programming for Dummies by Blake Watson IDG Books ISBN 1-56884-337-2 1995 438 pages $19.99 (U.S.) $26.99 (Canada) £18.99 (U.K.) OS/2 Warp Remote Communications (w/disk): Asynchronous to Synchronous Tips and Techniques by Kenneth Stonecipher, Jr. John Wiley & Sons ISBN 0-471-13125-3 October 1995 480 pages $39.95 (U.S.) $55.95 (Canada) OS/2 Warp Survival Guide by Doug Azzarito & David W. Green John Wiley & Sons ISBN 0-471-06083-6 July 1995 575 pages $29.95 (U.S.) $41.95 (Canada) The OS/2 Warp Survival Kit (w/disk) by Brian Proffitt Addison-Wesley ISBN 0-201-40915-1 August 1995 164 pages $19.95 (U.S.) $27.00 (Canada) OS/2 Warp Uncensored (w/CD) by Peter G. Magis & Ira H. Schneider IDG Books ISBN 1-56884-474-3 August 1995 812 pages $39.99 (U.S.) $54.99 (Canada) £38.99 (U.K.) OS/2 Warp Unleashed, Deluxe Edition (w/CD) by David Moscowitz, David Kerr, et al Sams Publishing ISBN 0-672-30545-3 1995 1,205 pages $39.99 (U.S.) $53.99 (Canada) £31.95 (U.K.) OS/2 Warp Version 3 Advanced Graphics GPI by Stephen A. Knight & Jeffrey M. Ryan John Wiley & Sons ISBN 0-471-10718-2 March 1995 $39.95 (U.S.) OS/2 Warp Workplace Shell API by Mindy Pollack & Marc Stock John Wiley & Sons ISBN 0-471-03872-5 April 1995 431 pages $29.95 (U.S.) PC Learning Labs Teaches OS/2 2.1 (w/disk) Ziff-Davis Press ISBN 1-56276-148-X 1993 279 pages $22.95 (U.S.) $31.95 (Canada) £21.32 (U.K.) The Photo CD Book (w/disk with OS/2 Warp applications) by von Bulow & Paulissen Abacus ISBN 1-55775-195-2 December 1994 The Power of Frameworks (w/CD) by Andrew Shebanow - Taligent, Inc. Addison-Wesley ISBN 0-201-48348-3 1995 336 pages $41.75 (U.S.) Programming the OS/2 Warp Version 3 GPI (w/disk) by Stephen A. Knight & Jeffrey M. Ryan John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN 0-471-10718-2 IBM SR28-5681 1995 406 pages $39.95 (U.S.) Real World Client/Server by Steve Krantz Maximum Press ISBN 0-9633214-7-1 (IBM GA23-1216) June 1995 375 pages $29.95 (U.S.) Real-World Programming for OS/2 2.11, 2nd Edition (w/disk) by Derrel R. Blain & William Jeffrey English Sams Publishing ISBN 0-672-30563-1 1994 842 pages $45.00 (U.S.) $61.96 (Canada) The REXX Cookbook (w/disk) by Merrill Callaway Whitestone ISBN 0-9632773-6-7 1995 $42.90 (U.S.) REXX Reference Summary Handbook, Fourth Edition by Dick Goran CFS Nevada, Inc. ISBN 0-9639854-3-4 (IBM S246-0078-02) 1997 228 pages $27.95 (U.S.) Running Windows Applications in OS/2: A Power User's Guide by Ayodele Anise, Teresa Behr Beck, and Jean N. Shortley Van Nostrand Reinhold ISBN 0-442-01924-6 November 1994 372 pages $34.95 (U.S.) Secrets of the OS/2 Masters by Sullivan Van Nostrand Reinhold ISBN 0-442-01991-2 January 1996 Speech Recognition: The Future Now" ISBN 013-61819-2 IBM SG24-4697-00 Stacker for OS/2 & DOS: An Illustrated Tutorial by Lisa Heller Windcrest/McGraw Hill ISBN 0-27-9861 1995 240 pages Stepping Up to OS/2 WARP by Robert M. Albrecht & Michael Plura Abacus Books ISBN 1-55755-269-X 1995 250 pages $19.95 (U.S.) $26.95 (Canada) £14.95 (U.K.) TCP/IP Applications Programming for OS/2 - With Applications for Presentation Manager by Steven J. Gutz Prentice Hall ISBN 0-132-61249-6 April 1996 $47.00 (U.S.) Teach Yourself...OS/2 Warp by Judi N. Fernandez MIS Press ISBN 1-55828-445-1 1995 299 pages $21.95 (U.S.) $29.95 (Canada) Teach Yourself OS/2 Warp in a Week, Second Edition by Carol Thomas Sams Publishing ISBN 0-672-30684-0 1995 681 pages $25.00 (U.S.) $34.95 (Canada) £19.50 (U.K.) Teach Yourself REXX in 21 Days by William F. Schindler & Esther Schindler Sams Publishing ISBN 0-672-30529-1 1995 527 pages $29.99 (U.S.) The Ultimate OS/2 File Management Tool Kit by Len Dorfman and Mike Stegman McGraw-Hill ISBN 0-07-911882-8 $29.95 (U.S.) Understanding OSF DCE 1.1 for AIX and OS/2 by Rolf Lendenmann ISBN: 0-134-93750-3 Prentice Hall August 1996 $36.00 (U.S.) Using OS/2 Lotus SmartSuite, Special Edition by Robert Weberg QUE ISBN 0-7897-0272-X 1995 721 pages $34.99 (U.S.) $46.99 (Canada) £32.49 (U.K.) Using OS/2 Warp - The User Friendly Reference by Bruce Hallberg QUE ISBN 0-7897-0292-4 1995 402 pages $19.99 (U.S.) $26.99 (Canada) £18.49 (U.K.) Using OS/2 Warp Version 3, Special Edition by Barry Nance & Lenny Bailes QUE ISBN 0-7897-0088-3 1995 741 pages $29.99 (U.S.) $39.99 (Canada) £27.49 (U.K.) Using the OS/2 Warp BonusPak by Alexander Hoff Abacus ISBN 1-55755-285-1 Data Becker (Germany) ISBN 3-89011-1168-6 March 1995 280 pages $22.95 (U.S.) $29.95 (Canada) The Warp Book: Your Definitive Guide to Installing and Using OS/2 by Barrie Sosinsky Prima ISBN 0-7615-0034-0 March 1995 628 pages $24.95 (U.S.) $34.95 (Canada) £22.99 (U.K.) Warping to the Internet (w/CD) by Norbert Salomon Abacus ISBN 1-55755-284-3 1995 275 pages $29.95 (U.S.) $39.95 (Canada) £27.99 (U.K.) Windows and OS/2 Bitmapped Graphics (w/disk) by Steve Rimmer McGraw Hill Text ISBN 0079119026 July 1996 $49.95 (U.S.) Writing OS/2 2.1 Device Drivers in C, Second Edition/Updated and Revised by Steven J. Mastrianni, Foreword by John Soyring Van Nostrand Reinhold ISBN 0-442-01729-4 $39.95 (U.S.) Writing OS/2 REXX Programs by Ronny Richardson IBM McGraw-Hill ISBN 0-07-052372-X 240 pages $39.95 (U.S.) Writing VX-REXX Programs by Ronny Richardson IBM McGraw-Hill ISBN 0-07-911911-5 416 pages $39.95 (U.S.) Your OS/2 Warp Version 3 Consultant, 2nd Edition by Herb Tyson Sams Publishing ISBN 0-672-30484-8 December 1994 611 pages $25.00 (U.S.) $34.95 (Canada)
