From Why We Don't Like People by Donald A. Laird, 1933.

From A Trip to the Land of the Midnight Sun by Martha Buckingham Wood, 1910.

A surprising percentage of folks on the internet don't actually know How to Look at Pictures (Hendrik Willem Van Loon, 1938).

Tell Your Fortune (via Gordon Meyer).

From King of the Kerry Fair by Nicolete Meredith, with woodcuts by Nonny Hogrogian.

The Runic and Other Monumental Remains of the Isle of Man by J. G. Cumming, 1857.

From The True History of Pepper's Ghost by John Pepper, 1890.

From Where No Fear Was by Maurice Nesbitt.

From Little Dinners with the Sphinx by Richard Le Gallienne, 1907.

From Heaven By the Hems by Marina de Berg.

"Belle Marvel Brain" -- that's quite a name (pen name?).  The Transformation of Hawaii by Belle Marvel Brain, 1898.

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.