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- “Notebooks” (Thoreau MacDonald; Penumbra Press, 1980)
- “Thoreau’s Tales” (David McCabe, Thoreau MacDonald and Susan MacDonald; The Woodchuck Press, 2002)
- “The Ryerson Poetry Chap-Books; The Sea is Our Doorway” (Michael Harrington; Cover design by J.E.H. and Thoreau MacDonald; The Ryerson Press, Toronto, 1947) (Chap-Book Number 124)
- “Hurt not the Earth” (E. Newton-White, drawings by Thoreau MacDonald; The Ryerson Press, Toronto, 1958)
- “A Canadian Nation” (Lorne Pierce, Designed by Thoreau MacDonald; The Ryerson Press, 1960)
- “The Woodcarver’s Wife” (Marjorie L. C. Pickthall with decorations by J.E.H. MacDonald; McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, 1922)
- “A Word to Us All” (J.E.H. MacDonald with a note by Robert Stacey; McBurnie Cutler Editions, Toronto, 1996) (limited edition keepsake on the occasion of the publication of “J.E.H. MacDonald: Designer”; No. 434 of 500 copies) (signed by Robert Stacey on title page)
- “The Rocking Chair and Other Poems” (A.M. Klein with drawings by Thoreau MacDonald; The Ryerson Press, Toronto, 1966)
- “The Group of Seven: Thoreau MacDonald” (Canadian Art Series; The Ryerson Press, Toronto, 1944
- “South of North: Images of Canada” (Richard Outram, drawings by Thoreau MacDonald; The Porcupine’s Quill, Erin) (signed and inscribed by Rosemary Kilbourn
- “The Songs of Wade Hemsworth” (illustrations by Thoreau MacDonald; Penumbra Press, Waterloo, 1990)
