Book Jackets: All (by author)
Displaying 325–360 of 616 book jackets
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Kotlowitz, Robert , 1977
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394492261
This grave and moving novel describes a youthful rite of passage in one fortnight at an Atlantic City Jewish family hotel during the year 1939. Fred’s subtle first edition jacket illustration captures the nostalgia, as the holiday air becomes sharper and thinner.
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Kramer, Matt , 1990
HarperCollins
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780688086671
Fred designed several of these Matt Kramer “Making Sense of....” books on the ins and outs of wine. Note the subtle way in which the bottle’s curvature is described through the gentle shadows across the label.
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Kramer, Matt , 1992
William Morrow and Company
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780688104368
Most of the time, Fred was hired to create covers for novels, which meant reading the manuscripts, searching for levels of meaning, and probing ways to crystallize ideas in visual form. Designing book jackets like this one was like taking a vacation.
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Kramer, Matt , 1989
William Morrow and Company
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780688087302
The subject of wine has a certain glamour. For this exploration of the subject, Fred focused on that “je ne sais quois,” finding a deco-ish image that somehow connotes sophistication, and perhaps a touch of pretention. Love that far-away look in the eye.
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Kundera, Milan , 1980
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394508962
John Updike wrote in his NY Times review, “This book, as it bluntly calls itself, is brilliant and original.” Fred loved Milan Kundera’s works, and often created their covers. In this one, be sure to check out what’s going on in that drop-shadow.
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Kundera, Milan , 1985
Harper Perennial
First Edition, Paperback
ISBN: 9780060912222
Fred’s storybook silhouette perfectly captures the spirit of Kundera’s only play, written in 1971, an homage to Denis Diderot and his late 18th-century novel, “Jacques the Fatalist.” Philosophical paradoxes abound in this highly acclaimed on-the-road tale.
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Kundera, Milan , 1982
Harper & Row
Revised, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780060149871
“The Joke” relates the serious consequences of a frivolous message that a university student sends his girlfriend by postcard. Fred loved nailing any thought in pictures. As is the case with any joke, there’s no need for further elaboration here.
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Kundera, Milan , 1984
Harper & Row
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780060152581
This was the original cover of this famous book. For the paperback edition, Fred succumbed to the publisher’s desire for re-worked art. It was one of the only times he conceded that his second solution was better than his first.
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Kundera, Milan , 1991
Grove Press
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780802111111
Fred was honored to provide jackets for the first editions of four Milan Kundera novels: “The Joke,” “The Book of Laughter and Forgetting,” “The Unbearable Lightness of Being,” and “Immortality.” For this one, he created a masterful trompe l’oeil painting.
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Kundera, Milan , 1985
Harper & Row
First Edition, Paperback
ISBN: 9780060912529
You may recognize this cover, but there was a previous edition. One of the few times Fred agreed to the publisher’s desire for re-worked art. And one of the only times he conceded his second solution was better than his first.
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L’Engle, Madeleine , 1979
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780374362997
The novel tells of a girl named Vicky, and her struggle to understand life and significance as she deals with her dying grandfather, while at the same time finding love. Fred created the first edition jacket for this famous book, the winner of numerous awards. It was a Newbery Honor Book in 1981. It also won the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award, the California Young Reader Medal (1982) and the Colorado Children's Book Award (1983).
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L’Heureux, John , 1991
Viking Press
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780670829194
A New England teacher’s life is tested by accusations of impropriety that will destroy his career and transform his life. For the jacket of this acclaimed novel’s first edition, Fred hinted at the main character’s swirl of confusion with his wrap-around title treatment.
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L’Heureux, John , 1988
Viking Press
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780670817528
“Think of Medea, for instance. Even killing seemed better than not living your own life," opines Claire, a classicist and professor of Greek tragedies. Fred’s first edition jacket obliquely suggests neurosis, with the ominous presence of a man’s shadow.
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Leavitt, David , 1991
Warner Books
First Edition, Paperback
ISBN: 9780446393263
“An astonishing collection of short stories—set deep in the twisted heart of middle-class America...” said the New York Times. Fred’s evocative footprints manage to capture the very ordinariness of the book’s times and places, in conjunction with that ominous shadow.
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Leavitt, David , 1986
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394538730
David Leavitt’s second major work (his collection of short stories, “Family Dancing,” also featured a jacket by Fred) tells the story of two different men from two generations coming to terms with their homosexuality. For this first edition cover, Fred asked a friend to pose.
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Leavitt, David , 1989
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9781555842024
For the jacket of this first edition, Leavitt’s third novel, Fred chose to depict the most direct visual expression of affection. In his hands, a stubby pencil and crumpled piece of paper take on unexpected eloquence, and aptly summarize the thrust of this family drama.
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Leavitt, David , 1990
Viking Press
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780670821969
This jacket, for a collection of ten stories dealing with homosexuality, subtly reflects the content’s sensitivity. Fred created first edition covers for four of Leavitt’s books: “Family Dancing,” “The Lost Language of Cranes,” “Equal Affections,” and this one.
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Leonard, George , 1984
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671496760
When a loner, trying to prevent the slaughter of birds in a wildlife sanctuary, kills a man, he experiences a pleasure in killing that drives him to retreat beneath the ice-covered waters of Long Island Sound. Fred’s first edition jacket image finds him there.
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Lessing, Doris , 1981
Touchstone Books
First Edition, Paperback
ISBN: 9780671428099
“Africa gives you the knowledge that man is a small creature, among other creatures, in a large landscape,” said Doris Lessing, as quoted in this edition’s jacket summary. Fred’s cover art steps back from that observation, and lets his minimalist image express the thought. Fred won the 1982 American Book Award for Jacket Design for African Stories, receiving a Louise Nevelson Sculpture prize.
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Lessing, Doris , 1984
Simon & Schuster
Reissue, Paperback
ISBN: 9780671541903
“Women are always serious about love, but Doris Lessing is more than serious: she is downright glum...” wrote one reviewer about her collection of nineteen short stories. Fred captured that mood in his image for the book’s paperback first edition.
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Lessing, Doris , 1984
Simon & Schuster
Reissue, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671287702
When the author won the Nobel Prize, the Swedish Academy said: “The burgeoning feminist movement saw it as a pioneering work....” For the jacket of this classic’s reissue, Fred chose a simple stack of the author’s famous color-coded notebooks.
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Levi, Primo , 1987
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671632809
Coming up with jacket imagery for books dealing with the Holocaust was always a special challenge. Avoiding the trite, grotesque, or maudlin could be a delicate exercise. Here Fred seems to have struck exactly the right tone.
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Lewis, Norman , 1984
Pantheon Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394535647
Ronald Kemp, a British journalist, finds himself caught in the middle of a failed plot to assassinate the Libyan dictator, as well as the Libyans’ successful murder of the president of Egypt. Not a very comfortable position, it would appear.
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Lewis, David Levering, 1981
VIntage Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394495729
Tremendous optimism filled the streets of Harlem during the decade and a half following World War I. This account recaptures the excitement of those times, displaying the hope that black Americans could create important art, and compel the nation to recognize their equality.
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Lieberman, Herbert , 1978
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671243630
Fred’s illustration visually synthesizes the book’s plot, in a novel, based on fact, about an Israeli agent who tracks down the notorious Nazi “Angel of Death” in a Paraguay resort where he’s been hiding out.
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List, Shelley , 1982
E.P. Dutton
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780525241324
“Never take candy from a stranger,” said many a parent. An accomplished female photojournalist takes on an assignment that triggers some shocking recollections in this soul-wrenching novel. Fred's illustration reflects innocence betrayed.
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Lowry, Dave , 1985
Shambhala Publications
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394730271
The author juxtaposes his singular experience as a student of kenjutsu (the art of swordsmanship) under a Japanese teacher in St. Louis, with an account of the samurai tradition in Japan. Fred’s image captured the flavor for the jacket of this trade paperback reissue.
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