File:Hostile hospital.jpg

First-edition cover of Lemony Snicket's novel The Hostile Hospital, as illustrated by Brett Helquist in 2001. Published by Harper-Collins.

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1. It illustrates an article about the book from which the cover was taken.
2. The image is used as the primary means of visual identification of the article topic.
3. 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.
4. It is a low resolution image.
5. The image is only a small portion of the commercial product.
6. It is not replaceable with an uncopyrighted or freely copyrighted image of comparable educational value. It also has value as a first edition cover by Brett Helquist, the illustrator for all the other books in the Series of Unfortunate Events.

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