Probably not the real valentine

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Amazon has posted this cover for the January 2015 release of another small hardcover strip collection from Fantagraphics, A Valentine for Charlie Brown:

ValentinesAZNow, usually I would say that this is the cover for the book… but Fantagraphics pretty regularly changes their covers from the initial solicitation, and not just in minor ways. For example, this is the cover that Amazon has been hosting for their Thanksgiving collection:
ThanksgivingAZAnd this is the cover for the same book as it recently went up at BN.com:

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