Previous Publications – Current Publishers

Since 1977 Design Enterprises of San Francisco has published books and software developed inhouse. Our titles have been adopted by book clubs and found an audience world wide both in English and translations. The three titles below have been acquired by other publishers. Other titles, most notably those about the early personal computers, are now out of print.

• Thousand Pieces of Gold   by Ruthanne Lum McCunn

  Original Publication:	Hardcover, 1981. ISBN 0-932538-07-X
  	Trade Paperback, 1981. ISBN 0-932538-08-8
  Book Club:	Quality Paperback Book Club, 1982 & 1991
  Subsequent Publisher:	Dell, Laurel Paperback, 1983-1988
  Current Publisher:	Beacon Press, Bluestreak Paperback, 1988

• Sole Survivor   by Ruthanne Lum McCunn

  Original Publication:	Hardcover, 1985. ISBN 0-932538-61-4
  	Trade Paperback, 1985. ISBN 0-932538-62-2
  Book Club:	Book of the Month Club, Dolphin Book Club, 1985
  Subsequent Publisher:	Scholastic Paperback 1989 -1998
  	Reader's Digest International, Condensed Book
  Current Publisher:	Beacon Press, Trade Paperback, 1999

• Pie-Biter   by Ruthanne Lum McCunn

  Illustrated by:	You-shan Tang
  Chinese Translation by:	Ellen Lai-shan Yeung
  Original Publication:	Hardcover, English, 1983. ISBN 0-932538-09-6
  	Hardcover, Chinese, 1983. ISBN 0-932538-10-X
  Current Publisher:	Shen's Books, Hardcover, 1998
  	Trilingual Edition: English, Chinese, and Spanish

• An Illustrated History of the Chinese in America
  by Ruthanne Lum McCunn

  Hardcover, 1979		ISBN: 0-932538-01-0
  Paperback, 1979		ISBN: 0-932538-02-9

• Computer Programing for the Complete Idiot
  by Donald McCunn

  Paperback, 1979

  ISBN: 0-932538-04-5

• Computer Programming for the Compleat Idiot:
  for the IBM PC & PCjr
  by Donald McCunn

  Hardcover, 1984		ISBN: 0-932538-13-4
  Paperback, 1984		ISBN: 0-932538-14-2

• Computer Programming for the Compleat Idiot:
  for the Apple, Commodore, IBM, TRS-80 and Microsoft BASIC
  by Donald McCunn

  Hardcover, 1984		ISBN: 0-932538-11-8
  Paperback, 1984		ISBN: 0-932538-12-6

• Write, Edit, & Print: Word Processing with Personal Computers
  by Donald H McCunn

  Hardcover, 1982		ISBN: 0-932538-05-3
  Paperback, 1982		ISBN: 0-932538-06-1

• Alexander: for the IBM Personal Computer
  by Donald H. McCunn

  Software, 1986.

  ISBN: 0-932538-55-7