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Moon Atlases:

Observing the Moon
Gerald North. Cambridge University Press, hardback 380 pages. This is a fantastic book, and really does a great deal to motivate the study of the Moon. Until this book I always thought the moon was just a dusty lump of rock. It is always clear, and varied, and has many drawings and photos in it. This is another  book one can put to good use.

Full Moon
Michael Light, is a print catalogue of images taken by the Apollo moon missions, the images are very well done and the pick of the crop, there is a brief description of the images at the end of the book. 

The New Atlas of the Moon
Thiery Legault, Bruner, This is a a fabulous large format book of the moon showing high quality full size images of the moon for an entire lunar cycle, it details  the best features seen for a given day, there are also plastic overlays on some of the images with names, so you can see the moon with names and no names, highly recommended.

Discover the Moon
Jean Lacroux, Christian Legrand, a small format book focusing on what you can look for at each day during the lunar cycle in some detail.

TheTimes Atlas of the Moon
Compiled in the 1960's and used by NASA to help pick out sites for Apollo landings, it shows excellent drawings of the entire moon in some of the highest detail you'll find in any printed atlas. While primarily intended as a referance book, its can be used by the astronomer with a keen interest in the Moon,  a hard to find book these days.

The Hatfield Photographic Lunar Atlas
Jeremy Cook, a compilation of photographic high resolution plate images, showing details how you might see it at the eyepiece of a medium sized telescope.

Lunar Atlas
Dinsmore Alter, An old atlas of 154 photographic plates detailing sections of the Moon.