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[edit] Summary

Front cover of a 1990s paperback edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, published in the USA by Ballantine Books. This cover was one of a series of four that incorporated the 42 puzzle, designed by the book's author, Douglas Adams.

[edit] Fair use rationale

This image is only being used in the article about the book, and in a lead article about the different versions and history of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy for informational and educational purposes.
This particular book cover image, designed in part by its author, was only in use for a few years, and only in the USA, and has already become rare.
It is a low resolution image, in an inferior graphics format (JPEG).
It is not believed that this image will interfere with the rights of Douglas Adams's estate, or his current publishers, in the sales of his books.
It is also not believed that the use of this image will infringe upon the rights of Ballantine Books.

[edit] Licensing

This image is of a book cover, and the copyright for it is most likely owned either by the artist who created the cover or the publisher of the book. It is believed that the use of low-resolution images of book covers

to illustrate an article discussing the book in question
on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation,

qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law. Other use of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, might be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content for more information.

To the uploader: please add a detailed fair use rationale for each use, as described on Wikipedia:Non-free use rationale guideline, as well as the source of the work and copyright information. Please include in your fair use rationale details of the particular edition (publisher, market & year of publication) of the edition you have used, and also acknowledge any cover artist if such artist is acknowledged in that edition's frontmatter. If the book cover is in the public domain (see Wikipedia:Public domain), then use the appropriate public domain tag rather than this one.