- Blue Book "Smalltalk-80: The language and its implementation"; The original reference
- Green Book "Bits of History, Words of advice", Ed. Glenn Krasner. Advice from early implementers
- Red Book ""The interactive Programming Environment" Explains the use of development environment, one of the first books about a GUI. (also known as the Orange Book)
- Purple Book "Smalltalk 80 - The Language"; more than adequate for an intro, and the portions of the Blue Book that were left out are now available on the Web.
The Xerox Parc Colored Books
- Blue Book "Smalltalk-80: The language and its implementation"; The original reference
- Green Book "Bits of History, Words of advice", Ed. Glenn Krasner. Advice from early implementers
- Red Book ""The interactive Programming Environment" Explains the use of development environment, one of the first books about a GUI. (also known as the Orange Book)
- Purple Book "Smalltalk 80 - The Language"; more than adequate for an intro, and the portions of the Blue Book that were left out are now available on the Web.