Penguin Popular Classics 1994
Price: £1
History: It was a birthday present, 2006. Quite a long story this as well. My grandad asked in a second hand book shop if there were any copies. The owner searched for ages and found one. He thought he'd better get it at that point, seeing as it was cheap and the guy had had to look, even though he wasn't fond of the cover...
Look: ...as chance would have it, it's a cover I positively drooled over the first time I saw it on amazon.com. Friend 4 says it looks like he's doing cross stitch; perhaps, but it is everything an illustration for this book should be. The fact his face is shaded alone wins my respect, never mind the slightly cracked appearence of the image, the generally gloomy tone or the ominous dark window. And I think he's reading a letter...
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