From Magic and Magicians by Bill Severn, 1958.

We agree: "Something Must Be Done" (William B. Davenport, 1881).

From The Enchanted House by Edith Harrison and illustrated by Frederick Richardson, 1913.

Nice to have the author's and illustrator's signatures on the front cover.  From A Manual of Cheirosophy by Edward Heron Allen and illustrated by Rosamund Brunel Horsley, 1885.

From Angelophone Hymns, 1916.

From The Girl Green as Elderflower by Randolph Stow.

It's nice when a book title gives you a sense of what's inside.  From Sentences and Paragraphs by John Davidson, 1895.

For the person who has everything -- Archaic Fictile Revetments in Sicily and Magna Graecia by E. Douglas Van Buren, 1923.  As we always say, as of just now, people who live within clay-walled houses shouldn't throw pottery, unless they're broken-tile mosaicists.

From The Field of Clover by Laurence Housman, 1898.

If a thousand and one nights in Arabia is inconvenient, still available are a thousand and one afternoons in Chicago.  From A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago by Ben Hecht and illustrated by Herman Rosse, 1922.

From I Rode the Black Horse Far Away by Ivy O. Eastwick, 1960.

Girls and Gayety by Carolyn Wells, 1913.

Ever begin a book and feel as though you arrived late, that it started without you?  This one's already open at the cover.  From Love and Death in the American Novel by Leslie A. Fiedler.

From Yet Icebound Rivers Flow by Miervaldis Birze.

There's no going back.  Plus, note that the sticker on the book cover constitutes a red nose.  From Once a Clown, Always a Clown by De Wolf Hopper, 1927.

Before House of Dark Shadows (1970) there was the House of White Shadows (1903)

There have been some setbacks in the ensuing years, but back in 1949 Science And Religion Agree! by Milton Jenkins Jones.

The hypnotic suggestions of this book cover really did get us to look inside.  From Hypnotism As It Is by Xenophon LaMotte Sage, 1900.