Found these papers by happenstance.
Don't know if these are all well known or not but seem interesting.
Some are in well known locations, others not so much so.
All linked.

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Alternate Propellants for SSTO launchers.
Dr Bruce Dunn.
Based on a 1996 Space Access paper.
Compares LOX and HTP with all the usual and a few unusual mixes
against RP1 reference performance.

        http://www.dunnspace.com/alternate_ssto_propellants.htm

MAPP gas looks interesting.


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"Information for the Rocket Propulsion and Launcher Community
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        http://www.dunnspace.com/index.htm

Including

        LEO on the cheap
        12.47 MB pdf
        Air University Research Report AU-ARI-93-8
            Lt. Col. John R. London III

AND

        Self pressurised biprops

        http://www.dunnspace.com/self_pressurized_rockets.htm

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Refers to and provides an MSDOS Isp program that appears potentially
useful.
Based on / is ? the "Air Force Chemical Equilibrium Specific Impulse
Code".
Comparison with PROPEP?

    Description

        http://www.dunnspace.com/isp.htm


    Code

            http://www.dunnspace.com/isp2001.zip

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Columns on Minimum Cost Design
Arthur Schnitt.
As A.S. was Chief Structures Engineer at Bell Aircraft until leaving
them to join Aerospace in 1958 his views are liable to be at least
worth noting. A lot of this is related to things that happened long
ago but which are still very relevant now.
He rehashes the by now not totally unfamiliar maximum technology
versus minimum cost paradigm comparisons, BDB etc.
These papers were written 1997 -  1998. Arguably not tooo much has
changed since then but people are (still) trying to actually do it.

        http://www.dunnspace.com/home.html#Columns


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A SSTO thought experiment
Gary Hudson
Space Access 1991
SSTO based on S-IVB with 1 x SSME or  Shuttle ET + 6 x SSME.
Phoenix not wholly unlike the former I think.

        http://www.spacefuture.com/archive/a_single_stage_to_orbit_thought_experiment.shtml


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