Eliot Elisofon published many books, including "The Technique of Wood Sculpture", with his friend Chaim Gross, Epstein, New York, 1939; "Food is a Four Letter Word", foreword by Gypsy Rose Lee, Rinehart, 1948; "African Folktales and Sculpture", James Johnson Sweeny, Bollingen Series XXX11, 1953; "The Art of Indian Asia" by Heinrich Zimmer, edited by Joseph Campbell, illustrations, Bollingen Foundation, 1955; "The Sculpture of Africa", text by William Fagg, Praeger, 1955 (published in USA, England, France and Germany; this book on African sculpture is referenced by name in Daniel Olivas’s short story “Good Things Happen at Tina’s Café” featured in his collection “The King of Lighting Fixtures” published by the University of Arizona Press in 2017); "Color Photography", Viking, 1961 (published in US, England, France, Germany, Denmark and Finland); "The Nile", with an introduction by Laurens van der Post, Viking, 1964; "Africa's Animals", with Marvin Newman, Doubleday, 1967; "Hollywood Style", text by Arthur Knight, Macmillan, 1969; "Java Diary", Macmillan, 1969; "The Cooking of India", text by Santha Rama Rau, illustrations, Time/Life Books, 1969; "The Hollywood Style", text by Arthur Knight, Macmillan, 1969; "The Cooking of Japan", text by Rafael Steinberg, illustrations, Time/Life Books, 1970; "A Week in Agata's World: Poland", Crowell-Collier, 1970; "A Week in Leonora's World: Puerto Rico", Crowell-Collier, 1971; "Erotic Spirituality: The Vision of Konarak", text by Alan Watts, Macmillan, 1971, 1974; and "Zaire, A Week in Joseph's World", Crowell-Collier, 1973.
