Jack Lasenby, The Battle of Pook Island.
Dunedin: Longacre, 1996. Private Collection. Designer: Jenny Cooper
The cover for Jack Lasenby's The Battle of Pook Island, the third in the Seddon Street Gang trilogy. Of Lasenby's imagery Elliot has written: 'I found Jack's imagery in these books quite dark and surreal from the start and tried to reflect that in the way I conceived the covers. '
Straight Jackets: the Art of the Book Jacket
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