1986 The Black Canoe: Bill Reid and the Spirit of Haida Gwaii, with photographs by Ulli Steltzer, 1991 Boats Is Saintlier Than Captains: Thirteen Ways of Looking at Morality, Language, and Design, 1997 Native American Oral Literatures and the Unity of the Humanities, 1998 A Short History of the Printed Word, with Warren Chappell, 1999 A Story as Sharp as a Knife: The Classical Haida Mythtellers and Their World, 1999, nominated for a Governor General's Award; 2nd ed., 2011 The Elements of Typographic Style, 1992; revised 1996; 2004, 2005, and 2008; 2012, 2015, and 2016 The Solid Form of Language: An Essay on Writing and Meaning, 2004 The Tree of Meaning: Thirteen Talks, 2006 Everywhere Being Is Dancing, 2007 The Surface of Meaning: Books and Book Design in Canada, 2008 What Is Reading For?, 2011 Palatino: The Natural History of a Typeface, 2016 (Book Club of California) Translation Volumes 2 and 3 of the trilogy Masterworks of the Classical Haida Mythtellers (volume 1, A Story as Sharp as a Knife, is a prose work about Haida literature and is not primarily a work of translation) Ghandl of the Qayahl Llaanas, Nine Visits to the Mythworld (a collection of stories by the myth-teller Ghandl, as collected in 1900 by John Reed Swanton), 2000, short-listed for the 2001 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize Skaay of the Qquuna Qiighawaay, Being in Being: The Collected Works of a Master Haida Mythteller (a collection of stories by the myth-teller Skaay, as collected by John Reed Swanton), 2001 Parmenides, The Fragments, 2003 Skaay of the Qquuna Qiighawaay, Siixha/Floating Overhead: The Qquna Cycle §3.3, 2007 Edited works Visions: Contemporary Art in Canada, 1983 Jan Tschichold, The Form of the Book: Essays on the Morality of Good Design, 1991 Bill Reid, Solitary Raven: The Essential Writings, 2000; 2nd ed., 2009 Carving the Elements: A Companion to the Fragments of Parmenides, 2004 François Mandeville, This Is What They Say, translated from Chipewyan by Ron Scollon, 2009 Kay Amert, The Scythe and the Rabbit: Simon de Colines and the Culture of the Book in Renaissance Paris, 2012 Commentary Listening for the Heartbeat of Being: The Arts of Robert Bringhurst, edited by Brent Wood and Mark Dickinson – 2015 References Footnotes Works cited Further reading Brent Wood, Mark Dickinson (eds.): Listening for the Heartbeat of Being: The Arts of Robert Bringhurst, Montreal; Kingston; London; Chicago: McGill-Queen's University Press 2015, External links Griffin