Which came first, the abbot or the monastery?  Here's your answer, from The Abbot, Being the Sequel to The Monastery by Walter Scott, 1832.

Here's some duplication from 1936.

It's only funny if there's elbow room.  By Max Adeler, 1882.

You guessed it -- Non Sequitur is a one-off.  By Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, 1900.

Zorastro, 1899.   Also very much of interest: The Young Wizard's Hexopedia.

Uncharted Territory by Connie Willis, 1994.

Here we learn that books have souls and that the moment a work is published it appears in another world (either heavenly or hellish.  Bad books are tormented in Hell.)

From Henry R. Cleveland, "De Diabolo," The American Monthly Magazine, 1836.

Among the Gnomes, An Occult Tale of Adventure in the Untersberg by Franz Hartmann, 1895.

Here's A Book Without a Title by George Jean Nathan, 1918.  Its epigraph offers some explanation and/or confession: "'Titles of books: Decoys to catch purchasers.' —Chatfield."  Previously, we stumbled upon this other book that was printed without a title.

John Henry Anderson's Great Wizard of the North's Hand-Book of Natural Magic, 1846.   Also very much of interest: The Young Wizard's Hexopedia.

Every Night Book, or, Life After Dark by William Clarke, 1827.

Marvelous Evidence, Or, A Witness From the Grave (Occult) by Thomas Bates, 1897.

Here's a book entitled Green Peas, along with the explanation.

From Jugend, 1910.

INSTRUCTIONS: Click to transform the title.

It's a brittle thing, to be sure.  Life Beyond the Grave: Described by a Spirit Through a Writing Medium, 1877.