From Magic and Magicians by Bill Severn, 1958.

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

Great chapter title: "The Black Spot is Erased from the Map of the World and There Is Dancing in the Sunlight."  From City of Endless Night by Milo Hastings, 1920.

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.

Great chapter title: "A Goddess Who is Suffering from Obesity and a Brave Man Who Is Afraid of the Law of Averages."  From City of Endless Night by Milo Hastings, 1920.

From The Girl Green as Elderflower by Randolph Stow.

From The Jolly Tailor and Other Tales Translated from the Polish by Lucia Merecka Borski and Kate B. Miller and illustrated by Kazimir Klepacki, 1928.

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.

From Mars Hill's 1972 yearbook.

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.