File:"My Life" by Oswald Mosley - front cover.jpeg

Cover of My Life (1968) by the British politician Oswald Mosley. The cover features a side profile of Mosley on a blue background.

Mosley, Oswald (1968). My Life. Arlington House. ISBN 978-0-87000-160-4.. Direct source from Yumpu PDF.

While I cannot tell if this is a scan of the first edition, the only copyrightable element is the photograph by Mark Gerson. An Ebay upload confirms this photograph was published in the first edition, 1968, without a copyright notice on the dust jacket. All other elements are common property with no origin.

Photograph by Mark Gerson, as identified on the dust jacket. Text, line and colour are common ownership.

No permission is required within the United States. It is more complicated in other areas, such as it's home country of the United Kingdom.

1. First, the photo is a mechanical scan/photocopy of the original cover and does not qualify for independent copyright protection.
2. Second, the dust jacket was first published prior to 1978 without a valid copyright notice. My Life was first published in 1968; the hardcover book itself carried a copyright notice, so its contents remain copyrighted. 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."

At least one source verifiably of the 1968 edition can be used to verify the dust jacket's lack of a copyright notice: an Ebay upload verifiably from 1968 (per Mosley’s signature) that contains the whole dust jacket with no sign of copyright notice. 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)";
2. "The year of first publication for the work"; and
3. "The name of the copyright owner, or an abbreviation by which the name can be recognized, or a generally known alternative designation of the owner."

If just one of these elements is omitted, the work is deemed to be published without notice and is not eligible for copyright protection. Neither the year "1968" nor a copyright symbol (or any acceptable variant) appear anywhere on the dust jacket. Credits like "portrait by Mark Gerson" do not meet the requirements, nor do the identifications of the publisher and author.

Adapted from description to File:To Kill a Mockingbird (first edition cover).jpg.