From History of Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper by Joseph Crawhall, 1852

From The Good Wolf by Frances Hodgson Burnett, 1908.

Does Hell Exist? by Wilfred G. Hurley, 1945.

From Wonder Tales from Russia by Jeremiah Curtin, 1921.

From A Cloverdale Skeleton by C. Lauron Hooper, 1889.

From Cobwebs by Harriet Gertrude Watres, 1886.

Let there be comfort in knowing that The Stars Are Still There (by Stewart Edward White, 1946).

The phrase "abridged strangeness" is a Googlewhack as of this posting.  From Strangely Enough! (abridged) by C. B. Colby.

If the war on Christmas continues at its current pace, we'll once again need signposts to find it.  From This Way to Christmas by Ruth Sawyer, 1916.

Not only is Future Preconditional an extremely rare phrase and wonderful name for a book, but this volume comes in its own paper bag!  By Douglas Woolf.

It's unusual to see an author use his birthday numbers as a byline.  From When a Witch Is Young by 4-19-69 (Philip Verrill Mighels), 1901.  Speaking of birth numbers, see our resurrection of the remarkable Astronumerography.

Eight years before the opening of Disneyland's Pirates of the Caribbean ride, there was The Singing Cave by Eilîs Dillon, 1959 (apparently rare -- the softcover is listed at $800 on Amazon!).

We visited the land of frozen suns, and the locals all thought it was a gorgeous day and were getting ice cream cones, and we were like, "But it's effing freezing!"

From The Divine Plan of the Ages as Shown in the Great Pyramid by Charles Taze Russell, 1886.

With all the book covers that force us to read between the lines (see exhibits 1-4), we can't read exhibit 5's mind because the title looks like it ought to scan as, "Can't Read Mind Why You My."

Last we checked, softcovers of this were going for nearly a thousand dollars: Curses, Hexes, & Spells by Daniel Cohen.

Cocktails: How to Mix Them. From 1922.  See Of Drinking in Remembrance of the Dead.

Last we checked, the hardcover of this one was approaching a thousand dollars: A Queer Kind of Death by George Baxt, 1966.