From: David Steuber
Subject: Re: First element of a quoted list
Date: 
Message-ID: <87sm7fel6d.fsf@david-steuber.com>
This is Scheme rather than Common Lisp, but you may be served well by
this book:

  http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html

Once you can write a Scheme implementation, you should then look at
this:

  http://www.lispworks.com/reference/HyperSpec/

You might also want to take a look at this:

  http://armedbear-j.sourceforge.net/

Good luck.

-- 
An ideal world is left as an excercise to the reader.
   --- Paul Graham, On Lisp 8.1