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Description	Spine and front cover of the dust jacket for the first British edition of Gambit (1962), a Nero Wolfe novel by Rex Stout published in 1963 in the UK
Source	Self scan of book cover designed by John Rose (?) for Collins Crime Club
Date	1963
Author	John Rose (?), jacket designer, for Collins Crime Club Rose's name does not appear on the Gambit dust jacket, but it is regarded as his work by John Cooper and B.A. Pike in their 1995 book, Artists in Crime: An Illustrated Survey of Crime Fiction First Edition Dust Wrappers 1920–1970 (ISBN 1859281885). From page 170 — "artist: ? John Rose ... The white wrapper, in Rose's characteristic style, has red chessmen and a blue poison bottle."
Permission (Reusing this image)	Fair use of book cover to visually identify first UK edition of the subject of the article, the novel Gambit (novel); 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, for visual identification of the first UK edition of the novel Gambit.
The image is an accurate scan and includes all of the art created for the spine and front cover of the first-edition dustjacket
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 the article Gambit (novel) adds significantly to the article because it visually identifies the first British edition of the novel
Use of this image in the the article Gambit (novel) adds significantly to the article because its design has been regarded as notable by John Cooper and B.A. Pike in their book Artists in Crime: An Illustrated Survey of Crime Fiction First Edition Dust Wrappers 1920–1970 (1995), ISBN 1859281885 (the Gambit dust jacket appears on p. 170)
The copyright owner's rights to reproduce the image are not limited in any way.

Non-free / fair use media rationale for Gambit (novel)
Description	First edition book cover of Gambit (1962), a Nero Wolfe novel by Rex Stout
Source	Self scan of book cover designed by John Rose (?) for Collins Crime Club
Article	Gambit (novel)
Portion used	Image is not cropped
Low resolution?	509 x 600 pixels at 72 ppi
Purpose of use	Informational purposes only, for visual identification of the first UK edition of the Nero Wolfe novel Gambit"
Replaceable?	Not replaceable; there is no free version of this image. This is an original book cover designed for the 1963 British first edition of the Rex Stout novel Gambit