Bookworms are actually made of readers.  From Wake Forest's 1912 yearbook.

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."

"When an object is flying toward you, you turn your head away at once.  This reflex action protects you from danger" (Boleslaus and Munch, Science for a Changing World, 1967).

From Centenary's 1927 yearbook.

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.

Last we checked, the hardcover of this book was nearly $900 on Amazon: Letters From the Dead by Campbell Black (our restoration of a poor scan).

From The Mermaid's Message by Ruth Bishop, 1919.

From Full of Fun by Dean Rivers, George Thatcher, and Henry Firth Wood, 1921.

From Western Reserve's 1913 yearbook.

Not sure we get the joke.  From Northeastern's 1964 yearbook.

"A personification.  The books dedicate their new library."  From the State Female Normal School's 1903 yearbook.

From Kansas State's 1900 yearbook.

Wait -- I know this.  Mustachioed, mustard, and mustiness.  Oh yeah, must-read, must-see, and must-have.  That's six.  This book says there are 6,000 must words.  I hate to question that number, since folks initially doubted that I'd collected 1,000 one-letter words for One-Letter Words: A Dictionary. 

Reblog if you're a book magnet.  From Park College's 1928 yearbook.

Reblog only if you're a recreational reader and can relate to the special joy depicted in this photograph.  From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1951 yearbook.

What a concise way to communicate a title, year, edition number, publisher, city, editor's name, and ten major contributors.  That's sixteen units of information!  From Wheels by Edith Sitwell, 1916.