Great Book Titles: The Does/Don'ts of Septic Tanks, Charm, and Gold.

JF Ptak Science Books   Quick Post  Part of the series on Unusual, Obtuse, and Outsider Book Titles 

At some point I think I would like to post an exhibition of some of the collection of the vastly/quietly weird/surreal/Outsidery titles from my BizzaroLand Today! pamphlet collection.  Sometimes the titles are just incredibly weird, or wrong, or they're not titles at all but something else, or they're unintentionally absurdist of dadaist or Surreal, or they are just Outside what we might come to expect in the world of logic and its extensions.  Sometimes the titles are just odd and the work is real; sometimes not. Sometimes they're just terrifically understated or heartbreakingly simple, and even useful, like this example (from Clymer, New York, 1945):

And this one, which is just, well, odd and wrong-sounding (1939):

And this, which assumes that SHOUTING = CHARM (1945):

There are many, many more (just follow the link above for other samples).