A recommended book for those who like book art, and would like to have some real trustful information about it would be: Book Typography.



It is a complete manual for books typography, a 448 pages, 1000 illustrations of concepts and principles.
If you are one of people who has sent me a note asking me to recommend a book, if I have recommended the complete manual of typography and Tschichold’s The Art of the Book, then you don't have to buy this one at all.
If you are tottaly new in typography and want to have a good manual then go for the following:
1- Typography for Emil Ruder ( as a start )
2- The complete manual of Typography ( which is in my webcam )
then depends on what you need typography, if you want to learn how to make fonts there are few books for you.. I worked in making fonts for long time and I can say it is the most hard thing, but the key book here would be " learn font lab fast " book. If you are one of those who doesn't use windows or mac, and sticking with linux, you have to note me to see how to make you start in fontforgue. I mean it is like that, if you want just to use typography in normal designs like advertisings, logos etc, then don't buy additional books.
Advices
Those advices are after me explored deviantART for long time, please avoide the following fonts from your body text:
1- Avant Gard. ( which was really made for marketing purposes! )
2- Futura.
3- century gothic.
4- bauhaus font
5- Arial!
6- Helvetica!
best fonts for screens: Trebuchet MS, and Verdana. Also Lucida is very good, best sizes for screen are 14- 16. and for bitmaps the hitting of verdana and tebuchet is perfect, so you can add no effect to them at small sizes which is really useful in bottons. That's all