Danny
Goodman's ground-breaking AppleScript
Handbook; outdated and out of print, it remains a
classic, and is now available through print-on-demand direct from the
publisher:
http://www.dannyg.com/pubs/index.html
Ethan Wilde, AppleScript for the Internet: Visual
QuickStart Guide (Peachpit Press: 1998):
Currently out of print, but check http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201353598/
for a used copy.
Ethan Wilde, AppleScript for Applications: Visual
QuickStart Guide (Peachpit Press: 2001):
http://www.peachpit.com/books/
Shirley Hopkins, AppleScripting InDesign (Dtp
Connection: 2000):
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0970726511/
Shirley Hopkins, AppleScripting QuarkXPress
(Dtp Connection: 2000):
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0970726503/
Ethan Wilde, Adobe Illustrator Scripting with Visual Basic
and AppleScript (Adobe: 2002):
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0321112512/
Matt Neuburg, Frontier: The Definitive Guide
(O'Reilly & Associates, 1998); contains some
helpful technical discussion of AEPrint format and of how object
references are structured as Apple events:
http://pages.sbcglobal.net/mattneub/frontierDef/ch00.html