INSTRUCTIONS: Click to shift to the title page.

From Cunning Is Better Than Strong by Virginia Ormsby, 1960.

From Mental Poisoning by H. Spencer Lewis.

INSTRUCTIONS: Click to reveal the photo that inspired the drawing. From My Cat Spit McGee by Willie Morris.

Great inclusion of a little sand dune next to the P, and the backwards Y gives the flavor of an ambigram.  From Panzer's 1929 yearbook.

We previously highlighted the wonderful first page of William De Morgan's When Ghost Meets Ghost (1914).

From The Complete Cynic, Being Bunches of Wisdom Culled from the Calendars of Oliver Herford, Ethel Watts Mumford, and Addison Mizner, 1910.

From Let Your Body Interpret Your Dreams by Eugene Gendlin.

The cover gives it away -- there's a lot going on under Mannie's hat.  From Under Mannie's Hat by Ruth Branston McDougall.  

From The Cats' Arabian Nights by Abby Morton Diaz, 1881.

From the United States Naval Academy's 1944 yearbook.

From Helps and Hints for Hallowe'en by Laura Rountree Smith, 1920.

From Arrow Book of Ghost Stories by Nora Kramer.

From Ice-Breakers and the Ice-Breaker Herself by Edna Geister, 1921.

From Blues of a Lifetime: The Autobiography of Cornell Woolrich.

A sort of rubber stamp approach to the cover of Spenser's Shepheardes Calender by Paul McLane.

From The Flight of Puss Pandora, written and illustrated by Caroline Fuller, 1906.

From The Spell of Seven, edited by L. Sprague De Camp.

Something tells me this one won't be a page turner.  Slow Reading by John Miedema.

From Goshen's 1943 yearbook.