Not only does The Book That Casts No Reflection cast no reflection, but it sports a dapper mustache!  It's by magician/inventor Gregg Webb, author of the out-of-print Book That Doesn't Exist.  Not only do we admire Mr. Webb's book titles, but he hand-letters and profusely illustrates his works (even those that do not exist or no longer don't exist).

From Southwest Texas State Teachers College's 1919 yearbook.

An old illusion in which the dead rise again.  From Spook Crooks by Julien J. Proskauer, 1932.

Often misconstrued when given as a gift -- the Rod of Death.  From the Wizardry III: Legacy of Llylgamyn strategy handbook.

Before turning a woman into an orange tree, be sure your climate zone accommodates citrus.  From The Magic Catalogue by William Doerflinger.

The long-held gambits and counters are finally revealed, so that anyone can one-up the greatest scoundrels of all: magicians.  It's all in Upmanship Tricks: Secrets of One-Upping Magicians.

Cheese divination, jester scepters, and cheating at a game of Go Fish: it's Prof. Oddfellow's Penetralia.

"Cousened" is an obsolete version of "cozened," so the conjurer is himself tricked.  From Poets' Wit and Humor by W. H. Wills and illustrated by Charles Bennett and George H. Thomas, 1860.

How a theatrical ghost walks.  (But no mention of how ectoplasmic perambulation occurs.)  From Spook Crooks by Julien J. Proskauer, 1932.

Houdini holds a beaker for a giant robotic mad scientist, from Cine-Mundial, 1918.

From The Charm by Walter Besant & Walter Pollock, illustrated by Chris Hammond & A. Jule Goodman, 1896.

From Le Journal Amusant, 1906.