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English: Complete dust jacket from the first edition of Suttree (ISBN 0-394-48213-1), the 1979 novel by American author Cormac McCarthy. The publisher's description of the book reads as follows, omitting blurb quotations from other sources (these are blurred in the image itself for copyright reasons):
Front flap
(right side)		 Black flap
(left side)
$12.95

  Suttree is the fourth of Cormac McCarthy's novels to be published, but he had started it well before his first, The Orchard Keeper, appeared in 1965—to great critical acclaim—and won awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the William Faulkner Foundation.
  The principal scene of Suttree is Knoxville, Tennessee, in the early 1950's. The central figure, Cornelius Suttree, is a fisherman who lives in a dilapidated houseboat on the river. Estranged from his prominent family, he has withdrawn from the society they represent, choosing instead a different world inhabited by people who live precarious, desperate, often violent, lives.
  The characters in this incomparable novel are Suttree's neighbors, friends and familiars, and they are vividly portrayed. Among the most important and memorable are Gene Harrogate, the country boy who strives to outwit the city; Abednego Jones, the gigantic black man who operates a drinking and gambling establishment and is compulsively at war with the police; the American Indian Michael, who after long wanderings has by chance settled in a nearby cave and has much to teach Suttree about fishing; Harvey, the never-sober proprietor of a fabulous junkyard; Blind Richard, among whose talents is reading tombstone inscriptions with his fingers. There are many, many others, and through them and their actions Knoxville itself comes to be not merely a background but a city alive in such a way that it shares with Suttree the position of protagonist.
(continued on back flap)		 (continued from front flap)
  Readers who know Mr. McCarthy's earlier books are aware of what rewards await them in Suttree. Its extraordinary variety of episodes—horrifying or comic or violent or affecting—are unsurpassed in fiction. What Ralph Ellison said about The Orchard Keeper could equally well be said of Suttree: "[ quote omitted ]." Or Robert Coles in his New Yorker review of Outer Dark: "[ quote omitted ]." Or Anatole Broyard, in The New York Times, discussing the main character in Child of God: "[ quote omitted ]."
Jacket design: Jack Ribik
Random House, Inc., New York, N.Y. 10022
Printed in U.S.A. 2/79
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English: Scan via Heritage Auctions. Cropped from the original image by uploader and modified to remove copyrighted portions of the original dust jacket.
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English: Published by Random House. Jacket design by Jack Ribik. Author portrait by Dan Moore.
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English: No permission is required to use this image for two reasons:
  1. The dust jacket was published without a notice between 1978 and 1989 and was not registered for copyright within five years. Therefore, any new material published on the dust jacket for the first time—including the cover illustration, the author portrait, and most of the text on the jacket flaps—entered the public domain. See more information below.
  2. Any portions of the original dust jacket that could be protected by copyright have been removed from this image. The original text on the dust jacket quotes reviews from secondary sources, and these portions of the text have been blurred to the point of illegibility by the uploader.

Suttree was first published in the United States in February 1979, and the hardback book itself carried a valid copyright notice. However, the first-edition dust jacket did not carry a separate copyright notice. According to The Compendium of U.S. Copyright Office Practices: Chapter 2200, § 2207.1(C) at p. 15:

A notice of copyright on the dust jacket of a book is not an acceptable notice for the book, because the dust jacket is not permanently attached to the book. Likewise, a notice appearing in a book is not an acceptable notice for the dust jacket or any material appearing on that dust jacket, even if the book refers to the jacket or material appearing on the jacket.

Keep in mind that the pre-1989 requirements for copyright notice were highly formalistic and, other than a few enumerated exceptions, required these three elements:

  1. "The symbol © or the word 'Copyright' or the abbreviation 'Copr.' or an acceptable variant such as "(c)";
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If just one of these elements is omitted, the work is deemed to be published without notice. Neither the year of publication nor a copyright symbol (or any acceptable variant) appear anywhere on the dust jacket. The mere identifications of the publisher, author, or jacket designer do not meet these requirements. The lack of a valid copyright notice can be verified by inspecting the scan itself, either above or at the source URL. The lack of subsequent registration of the issue within five years of its publication can be confirmed by searching the US Copyright Office's online Copyright Catalog (1978 to present). Again, please note that this dust jacket is a distinct work from the novel Suttree itself, which will remain a copyrighted work until January 1, 2094 (i.e., 70 years after the death of its author, Cormac McCarthy).
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