Self-Dual Codes and Invariant Theory G. Nebe, E. M. Rains and N. J. A. Sloane (Web page includes errata) Springer-Verlag, 2006, xxvii+430 pp. ISBN 3-540-30729-x

Orthogonal Arrays: Theory and Applications A. S. Hedayat, N. J. A. Sloane and J. Stufken (Web page includes errata) Springer-Verlag, NY, 1999, xxiii+416 pp. ISBN 0-387-98766-5

Sphere Packings, Lattices and Groups J. H. Conway and N. J. A. Sloane (Web page includes errata) Springer-Verlag, NY 3rd ed., 1998, lxxiv + 703 pp. ISBN 0-387-98585-9	Sphere Packings, Lattices and Groups J. H. Conway and N. J. A. Sloane (Web page includes errata) Springer-Verlag, NY 1st ed., 1988, xxvii+663 pp. ISBN 0-387-96617-X	Russian translation, 2 vols. Published by Mir, Moscow, 1990, 791 pp. (Web page includes errata) Translated by S. N. Litsyn, G. B. Shabat, M. A. Tsfasman, S. G. Vladut, N. N. Yakovlev. ISBN 5-03-001421-7
The review of the first edition by Gian-Carlo Rota, in Advances in Mathematics, Vol. 84, Number 1, Nov. 1990, p. 136, reads, in full: ``This is the best survey of the best work in one of the best fields of combinatorics, written by the best people. It will make the best reading by the best students interested in the best mathematics that is now going on.'' See the web page for the book for further quotations.

The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences N. J. A. Sloane and S. Plouffe Academic Press San Diego, 1995, xiii+587 pp. ISBN 0-12-558630-2	A Handbook of Integer Sequences N. J. A. Sloane Academic Press, NY, 1973, xiii+206 pp. ISBN 0-12-648550-X
Favorite quotation from a reader of the 1973 book: ``There's the Old Testament, the New Testament, and the Handbook of Integer Sequences'' The files for the 1995 book occupied less than 1 megabyte. Today the OEIS takes up several gigabytes.

Rock Climbing New Jersey P. Nick and N. J. A. Sloane Falcon Publishing, Helena, Montana 2000, x+269 pp. ISBN 1-56044-790-7

A Climbing Guide to New Jersey Crags P. Nick and N. J. A. Sloane Chockstone Press, Evergreen, CO, 1996, vi+113 pp. ISBN 1-57540-032-4 Now published by Falcon Publishing.

Claude Elwood Shannon: Collected Papers Edited by N. J. A. Sloane and A. D. Wyner IEEE Press, NY, 1993, xliv+924 pp. ISBN 0-7803-0434-9

Claude Elwood Shannon: Miscellaneous Writings Edited by N. J. A. Sloane and A. D. Wyner, 1993, Deposited in The Library of Congress, The British Library, and the libraries of M.I.T., Cornell, Univ. Mich. and AT&T Bell Laboratories. Oct. 15 2013: I have placed a copy on the Internet Archive - see archive.org/details/ShannonMiscellaneousWritings

The Theory of Error-Correcting Codes F. J. MacWilliams and N. J. A. Sloane Elsevier/North-Holland8 Amsterdam, 1977, xvi+762 pp. ISBN 0-444-85193-3

Russian translation of The Theory of Error-Correcting Codes by I. I. Grushko and V. A. Zinov'ev Edited by L. A. Bassalygo8 Published by Svyaz, Moscow, 1979

Hadamard Transform Optics M. Harwit and N. J. A. Sloane Academic Press San Diego CA, 1979 ISBN 0-12-330050-9 [Out of print]

A Short Course on Error-Correcting Codes (Lectures given at the International Centre for Mechanical Sciences, Udine, Italy 1973) N. J. A. Sloane Springer-Verlag, NY, 1975 ISBN 0-387-81303-9, 3-211-81303-9

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