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O'Reilly does indeed have a book about LaTeX: "LaTeX par la pratique" by Christian Rolland, ISBN: 2-84177-073-7 which was published at the end of 1999. It's a French book. I started with LaTeX on my own in 2005 and this was the best book that I could find at that time.

It beats Kopka and Daly's guide (the 2003 edition) in my sincere opinion, which I studied afterwards. However, being published in 1999 means that the O'Reilly book doesn't cover many newer packages but the fundamentals that you learn from this book means that you're much well prepared to try newer packages on your own and finding the right information from other sources.

I have gone through many books on LaTeX but Rolland's book is still the book that I return to when I need some accurate information. It's a book that I can re-read from cover to cover due to its very lively style of presentation and finding the right information quickly is very easy in this book.

It's sad though that a newer edition of this book doesn't exist and that this book being written in French has a limited audience. Rolland's book is one of the few books that have secured a place on my bookshelf.