Books Authored or Edited by James J. Murphy
- James J. Murphy and Jon M. Ericson, The Debater's Guide (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1961; revised edition with Raymond Zeuschner, Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1987; third edition, 2003; fourth [50th anniversary] edition, 2011).
- James J. Murphy, ed. Quintilian on the Early Education of the Citizen-Orator (Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1966).
- James J. Murphy, ed. Demosthenes on the Crown (New York: Random House, 1967; reprinted, Davis, CA: Hermagoras Press, 1983; second edition, Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, forthcoming).
- James J. Murphy and Peter G. Kontos, ed. Teaching Urban Youth (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 1967).
- James J. Murphy, ed. and trans., Three Medieval Rhetorical Arts (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971).
- James J. Murphy , Medieval Rhetoric: A Select Bibliography (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1971; reprinted 1975; second edition 1989).
- James J. Murphy, ed. A Synoptic History of Classical Rhetoric (New York: Random House, 1972; reprinted, Davis, CA: Hermagoras Press, 1983; second edition with Richard A. Katula, 1995; third edition with Richard A. Katula, Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 2003; fourth edition with Richard A. Katula and Michael Hoppmann, London, U.K.: Routledge, 2013).
- James J. Murphy, Rhetoric in the Middle Ages: A History of Rhetorical Theory from Saint Augustine to the Renaissance (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974; reprinted 1976, 1978; trans. into Italian (1983) and Spanish (1986), Polish version forthcoming; Bibliographic Supplement, ed. Murphy, forthcoming).
- James J. Murphy, ed. and contrib., Medieval Eloquence: Studies in the Theory and Practice of Medieval Rhetoric (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978).
- James J. Murphy, Renaissance Rhetoric: A Short-Title Catalogue of Works on Rhetorical Theory from the Beginning of Printing to A.D. 1700 (New York: Garland, 1981; second edition, ed. with Lawrence D. Green, Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2006)]
- James J. Murphy, ed. The Rhetorical Tradition and Modern Writing (New York: MLA, 1982).
- James J. Murphy, ed. Renaissance Eloquence: Studies in the Theory and Practice of Renaissance Rhetoric (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983).
- James J. Murphy, ed. Arguments in Rhetoric Against Quintilian. Translation of “Rhetoricae distinctiones in Quintilianum” (1549) of Pierre de la Ramée. Trans. Carole Newlands (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1986).
- James J. Murphy, ed. Renaissance Rhetoric: Key Texts, A.D. 1479–1602. A Microfiche Collection of Important Texts from the Bodleian Library, Oxford (Oxford, U.K.: Microforms International, 1986).
- James J. Murphy, ed. and trans., Quintilian on the Teaching of Speaking and Writing: Translations from Books One, Two, and Ten of the “Institutio oratoria” (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1987; second edition forthcoming).
- James J. Murphy, ed. and contrib., A Short History of Writing Instruction from Ancient Greece to Twentieth-Century America (Davis, CA: Hermagoras Press, 1990) ( second edition, Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 2001; third edition, New York: Routledge, 2012)
- James J. Murphy, ed. Peter Ramus's Attack on Cicero: Text and Translation of Ramus's “Brutinae Quaestiones’. Trans. Carole Newlands (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1992).
- James J. Murphy, Latin Rhetoric and Education in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2005).
- James J. Murphy and Krista Ratcliffe, ed. Landmark Essays (New York: Routledge, forthcoming).
- James J. Murphy and Marc van der Poel, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Quintilian (Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).