Cover of the M. & S. edition: Barcelona, 1966

The cover features a young woman, sitting with her hands clasped in her lap, looking out towards the reader. On the right, an old man offers her a box. To the left, a younger man appears to be attempting to draw her attention.

It is the first edition of LC to resort to the reproduction of a painting that is suggestive of the content of the book, in this case a black a white reproduction of the painting by nineteenth century French academic painter William-Adolphe Bouguereau entitled Between Wealth and Love