Dustjacket design for 'Benjamin's Open Day' by Jane White.

Bookseller Notes

[With:] A copy of the Hamish Hamilton first edition of White's book, 1979, near fine in dustjacket - this protecting the original design by Lawrence beneath.An attractive design by John Lawrence, his original sketch broadly similar to the printed version, but with some differences in the detail that confirm it as an early version. Lawrence is one of the foremost British illustrators of the last fifty years; his work includes illustrations for Philip Pullman, Susan Hill's 'The Woman in Black', books for The Whittington Press and The Fleece Press, and 'Watership Down', as well as his own 'Rabbit and Pork' (there are also two small rabbits in the corner of the present design, should we be searching for recurrent themes).Though largely forgotten, Jane White published a handful of novels - many of which were concerned with, and written for, adolescents with, as the blurb on the printed dustjacket puts it 'an element of horror [...] running through them'.