1969

Basho - The Records of a Weather Exposed Skeleton, Alistair McAlpine Publishing Ltd., London (limited edition)

1970

The Garden of Caresses, translated from the Arabic by Franz Toussaint, drawings by William Turnbull, Alistair McAlpine Publishing Ltd., London (limited edition)

1976

Der Wassermaler, by Helmut Heissenbuttel, aquatints by William Turnbull, published by Sybil Albers, Zurich (limited edition)

1976

The Sculpture Of William Turnbull Published by The Henry Moore Foundation/Lund Humphries 2005