Since I had it lying around:
This is the 1968 reprint, cover illustration by John Lawrence (Guardian interview here) - still working, and these days best known for his collaboration with Philip Pullman on a supplement to His Dark Materials, Lyra's Oxford.
In a general, I prefer illustration to film tie-in but this is one of the cases where it's a come-down. The typography is horrible - crowded upper-case in a peculiar colour, and I loathe the way the author's name is shoved into that corner under the title. Lawrence's illustration has enormous charm, but puts me in mind of Anthony Blanche's admonition to Charles Ryder: "Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches. It kills love, it kills art..." Where's the wildness visible in that shouting child on the 1965 cover?
Lawrence has at least read the story, though (that's a pig the children are crowded around), and you can pick it up cheap; mine was £1.99.
OOPS: Hugh Bowden has pointed out that, contrary to what I wrote below, the film is available on DVD in the US: what I should have written is that it has not been issued on Region 2 DVD.
DOUBLE OOPS: Hugh further points out that it has been issued on Region 2 DVD in Spain - it's there on amazon.co.uk and I have no excuse for not spotting it. But it does cost an awful lot, and I'm still puzzled that a well-regarded (these days, at least - I gather its reception was lukewarm) film by a major British director isn't easily available in Britain.
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