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Description	Book cover for The City and the Stars by Arthur C. Clarke. This was published by Harcourt in June 1956 and was the first release of this novel. The image is used to illustrate the article The City and the Stars.
Source	https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=22803858964
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Author	The cover art shown in this image is by George Salter^[1] and the novel is by Arthur C. Clarke
Permission (Reusing this file)	Use per Wikipedia:Non-free_content#Guideline examples Acceptable use / Images / 1. Cover art: Cover art from various items, for identification only in the context of critical commentary of that item (not for identification without critical commentary).

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Description	Book Cover
Source	Derived from a digital capture (photo/scan) of the book cover (creator of this digital version is irrelevant as the copyright in all equivalent images is still held by the same party). Copyright held by the publisher or the artist. Claimed as fair use regardless.
Article	The City and the Stars
Portion used	Book cover only, a small portion of the commercial product.
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Purpose of use	The image serves as the primary means of visual identification of the subject (the book). It illustrates educational articles about the book from which the cover illustration was taken.
Replaceable?	There is no free equivalent of this book cover, so the image cannot be replaced by a free image.
Other information	The use of the cover will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original. In particular, copies could not be used to make illegal copies of the book.
Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of The City and the Stars//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_City_and_the_Stars_hardcover.jpgtrue

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^ Internet Speculative Fiction Database - http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?THCTNDTHSB1956

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	Date/Time	Thumbnail	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	21:59, 16 June 2019		257 × 382 (50 KB)	GrahamHardy (talk \| contribs)	clearer image
	07:34, 23 December 2017	No thumbnail	257 × 387 (21 KB)	Theo's Little Bot (talk \| contribs)	Reduce size of non-free image (BOT - disable)
	16:25, 11 April 2011	No thumbnail	291 × 439 (10 KB)	GrahamHardy (talk \| contribs)	Replace by 1st edition image (UK)

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[1] Internet Speculative Fiction Database - http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?THCTNDTHSB1956

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