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Description	Front cover of the digest-size paperback book Meet Nero Wolfe (Fer-de-Lance) (A Mercury Book No. 37), an abridged edition of Fer-de-Lance (1934), a Nero Wolfe novel by Rex Stout that utilizes the title of the 1936 film based on the novel
Source	Self scan of book cover designed by George Salter for The American Mercury, Inc.
Date	Not dated; likely to be close to 1938, the year Lawrence E. Spivak began publishing digest-size books
Author	George Salter for The American Mercury, Inc.
Permission (Reusing this image)	Fair use of book cover to visually a notable edition of the subject of the article, the novel Fer-de-Lance; for informational purposes only

[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.

Though this image is subject to copyright, I feel its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:

This is an image created and uploaded for informational purposes only.
The image is an accurate scan and includes all of the art created for the front cover
This image is of much lower resolution than the original. It cannot be used for high-resolution printing, and any copies made from it will be of inferior quality.
Use of this image in the Adaptations section of the article Fer-de-Lance adds significantly to the article because it visually identifies the first digest-book edition printing of the novel, published in abridged form by The American Mercury using the title Meet Nero Wolfe, the 1936 film based on the novel that is the subject of this section
Use of this image in the article Fer-de-Lance article adds significantly to the article because it visually identifies a notable early digest paperback by a notable publisher, Lawrence E. Spivak, and it was designed by a legendary book designer, George Salter, at the beginning of his long association with The American Mercury
The copyright owner's rights to reproduce the image are not limited in any way.

Non-free / fair use media rationale for Fer-de-Lance (book)
Description	First edition book cover of Meet Nero Wolfe (Fer-de-Lance) (Mercury Book No. 37), a digest paperback edition of the 1934 novel by Rex Stout
Source	Self scan of book cover designed by George Salter for The American Mercury, Inc.
Article	Fer-de-Lance (book)
Portion used	Image is not cropped
Low resolution?	400 x 550 pixels at 72 ppi
Purpose of use	Informational purposes only, for visual identification of the first digest paperback edition printing of the novel Fer-de-Lance (book)
Replaceable?	Not replaceable; there is no free version of this image. This is an original book jacket designed in the mid-1930s and the only image representing the first digest paperback release of this novel.