Those still wondering which came first, the chicken or the egg, aren't reading the right books.

The Dogs and the Fleas was written by a dog named Frederic Scrimshaw in 1893.

It's been said that "The author should be invisible every step of the way" (Angela Ackerman).  And that includes the title page, apparently.  This page is exactly as scanned by Google Books: "The Works of."

From Fields of Applied Psychology by Anne Anastasi.

From Astrology by Ronald C. Davison.

That's quite similar to the face we made the last time we tried to arrange a bouquet of eggs.  From Bouquet of Eggs by Genevieve Bowdoin.

Manx Crosses, or, The Inscribed and Sculptured Monuments of the Isle of Man From About the End of the Fifth to the Beginning of the Thirteenth Century by P. M. C. Kermode, 1907.

You've heard of the art crowd, but did you know they're color-by-number?  From The Art Crowd by Sophy Burnham, 1973.

A decade before Jonathan Livingston Seagull, there was Evangeline: Pigeon of Paris by Natalie Savage Carlson, 1960.

Here are four different / same books by Dostoevsky / Dostoyevsky / Dostoieffsky: Injury and Insult, The Insulted and Humiliated, The Insulted and Injured, and Humiliated and Insulted.  We wonder if even a single person on earth has read all four.

A rose is a peacock feather.  From Rosa Amorosa by George Egerton, 1901.

Who Lifted the Lid Off of Hell? by Elbert Hubbard, 1914.

A true skeptic is skeptical even of the rock-solid.  Note that the author of this book opted for anonymity, for Big Science bullies were as bad in 1877 as they are today.  From Skepticism in Geology by Verifier, 1877.

We, too, are a ghost town cowboy.  From Ghost Town Cowboy by Genevieve Torrey Eames and illustrated by Paul Brown, 1951.

It may be true that one can't judge a book by its cover, because the contents of this one are mind-numbingly mundane.  From 1930.

Perhaps your eye caught those three (or more) indentations, like footprints from some other sort of creature.  From St. Joseph's 1961 yearbook.

From Christmas Candles, Plays for Boys and Girls by Elsie Hobart Carter, 1915.

From Star People by Katharine Fay Dewey, 1910. 

The Best Halloween Book by Lenore Dolan, 1931.

Fairy in the Spider's Web by A.L.O.E., 1887.