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While Knuth’s book is the definitive reference for both TeX and Plain TeX, there are many books covering these topics:

The TeXbook

by Donald Knuth (Addison-Wesley, 1984, ISBN 0-201-13447-0, paperback ISBN 0-201-13448-9)

A Beginner’s Book of TeX

by Raymond Seroul and Silvio Levy, (Springer Verlag, 1992, ISBN 0-387-97562-4)

TeX by Example: A Beginner’s Guide

by Arvind Borde (Academic Press, 1992, ISBN 0-12-117650-9 — now out of print)

Introduction to TeX

by Norbert Schwarz (Addison-Wesley, 1989, ISBN 0-201-51141-X — now out of print)

A Plain TeX Primer

by Malcolm Clark (Oxford University Press, 1993, ISBNs 0-198-53724-7 (hardback) and 0-198-53784-0 (paperback))

A TeX Primer for Scientists

by Stanley Sawyer and Steven Krantz (CRC Press, 1994, ISBN 0-849-37159-7)

TeX by Topic

by Victor Eijkhout (Addison-Wesley, 1992, ISBN 0-201-56882-9 — now out of print, but see online books; you can also now buy a copy printed, on demand, by Lulu — see http://www.lulu.com/content/2555607)

TeX for the Beginner

by Wynter Snow (Addison-Wesley, 1992, ISBN 0-201-54799-6)

TeX for the Impatient

by Paul W. Abrahams, Karl Berry and Kathryn A. Hargreaves (Addison-Wesley, 1990, ISBN 0-201-51375-7 — now out of print, but see online books)

TeX in Practice

by Stephan von Bechtolsheim (Springer Verlag, 1993, 4 volumes, ISBN 3-540-97296-X for the set, or Vol. 1: ISBN 0-387-97595-0, Vol. 2: ISBN 0-387-97596-9, Vol. 3: ISBN 0-387-97597-7, and Vol. 4: ISBN 0-387-97598-5)

TeX: Starting from Square One

by Michael Doob (Springer Verlag, 1993, ISBN 3-540-56441-1 — now out of print)

The Joy of TeX

by Michael D. Spivak (second edition, AMS, 1990, ISBN 0-821-82997-1)

The Advanced TeXbook

by David Salomon (Springer Verlag, 1995, ISBN 0-387-94556-3)

A collection of Knuth’s publications about typography is also available:

Digital Typography

by Donald Knuth (CSLI and Cambridge University Press, 1999, ISBN 1-57586-011-2, paperback ISBN 1-57586-010-4).

and in late 2000, a “Millennium Boxed Set” of all 5 volumes of Knuth’s “Computers and Typesetting” series (about TeX and Metafont) was published by Addison Wesley:

Computers & Typesetting, Volumes A–E Boxed Set

by Donald Knuth (Addison-Wesley, 2001, ISBN 0-201-73416-8).