Book Jackets: All (by author)
Displaying 361–396 of 616 book jackets
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Lucas, Russell , 1991
Summit Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671727468
These stories are centered on Bombay, the city of the author’s birth, during the raucous ‘40s and ‘50s.When publishers asked Fred to place multiple critical blurbs on a jacket, he was undaunted.
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Lurie, Alison , 1988
Little, Brown and Company
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780316537209
This novel explores the twists and turns as a biographer probes into the life of her subject, a painter. The truth (or truths) tend to belie the writer’s feminist preconceptions. Fred found a way to visually summarize the premise for this first edition's jacket.
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MacLean, Alistair , 1978
Doubleday Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385128537
A fanatic terrorist kidnaps a nuclear scientist in order to find a way to trigger a series of explosions that will target California’s faultlines, hence the novel's title. Fred found an ingenious way to convincingly incorporate that title into a depiction of the disastrous results.
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Maclean, Charles , 1982
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671255312
A man kills his beloved retrievers, on a sudden unexplained impulse. With the help of his psychoanalyst, he comes to believe that he has been hypnotized, and begins spewing out data on six previous lives he has lived throughout the last thousand years.
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Manceron, Claude , 1989
Simon & Schuster
Reissue, Paperback
ISBN: 9780671680190
Fred created covers using tinted engravings for all five books in this series about the French Revolution. This is volume two, which introduces us to Louis XVI, Mirabeau, George Washington, Mozart, and an 18-year-old lieutenant name Napoleon de Buonaparte.
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Manceron, Claude , 1989
Touchstone Books
Reissue, Paperback
ISBN: 9780671680206
Fred enjoyed creating covers for all five books in this masterful series about the French Revolution. He chose to use airbrushed engravings from the period in each case. This one, the third volume, deals with aristocratic society on the eve of the great upheaval.
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Manceron, Claude , 1989
Touchstone Books
Reissue, Paperback
ISBN: 9780671680183
In 1988, Fred was commissioned by Simon & Schuster to design five book jackets for a series called “Chronicles of the French Revolution.” He chose to use tinted engravings throughout, as was the case for this first volume dealing with the aristocracy’s excesses and decline.
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Manceron, Claude , 1991
Touchstone Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671732936
Fred was commissioned by the publisher to create covers for the five books in this acclaimed series on the French Revolution. He loved going to the Public Library’s picture collection to do research. An obsolete practice, no doubt.
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Manley, Seon , 1980
Doubleday Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385153638
“Recommended for any fan of dolls, or anyone creeped out by them,” wrote one reviewer about this anthology, which features relevant writings by assorted authors, many of them very notable, like Agatha Christie and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Fred's illustration undeniably captures the spirit of the genre.
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Marasco, Robert , 1979
Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780440070603
When an ad woman falls in love with one of her clients, a charming toy-company tycoon, little does she know what she's getting into. She then learns about his last girlfriend, who died, a supposed suicide. Fred’s illustration for the novel’s first edition jacket hints at trouble ahead.
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Marshall, Alexandra , 1981
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394507576
The novel’s heroine is founder and president of Phoebe's Fudge, a Connecticut company gone public, which suddenly becomes the target of a raid by a monster conglomerate. For the book’s first edition jacket, Fred chose to depict a direct visual translation of the title.
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Martin, David Lozell, 1982
Holt, Rinehart and Winston
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780030604881
When book stores were everywhere in any city, they displayed jackets as art works, as in a gallery. Fred’s belief was that they were, in fact, and above all else, posters. Sometimes the most direct image was the best one, as here.
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Martone, Michael , 1984
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394530215
What do James Dean, Mark Spitz, Ezra Pound, John Dillinger, and Colonel Sanders have in common? Indiana, it seems. For this collection of short monologues, Fred fashioned a Monty Python-esque montage. The shadows hold the elements together.
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Maxwell, A. E. , 1985
Doubleday Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385192590
Presumably, the goldfish believes that he lives in Paradise, and so does the detective hero in this novel by a pseudonymically-bonded married couple. For the book's first edition jacket, Fred caught the eye with his starkly contrasting warm and cool palette.
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McAulay, Sara , 1982
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394518695
Fred often found provocative ways of depicting things that were not there, as in this first edition jacket. The missing party here is “Chance,” the nickname of the heroine’s murdered lover, Chauncey Griffin, a jockey and rodeo showman.
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McCaffrey, Anne , 1976
Atheneum Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780689305078
Fred's award-winning first edition jacket for this young adult classic, the third in McCaffrey's series of science fiction novels, depicts the heroine's rescue by a dragonrider, T'gran, and his brown dragon, Branth. In Benden Weyr, Menolly is free to pursue her musical ambitions.
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McCaffrey, Anne , 1977
Atheneum Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780689305702
This is another novel in the Pern series, and is a sequel to “Dragondrums.” This time, the theme explores the trials of a young female in the music conservatory who faces difficulties in an all-male setting.
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McCaffrey, Anne , 1979
Atheneum Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780689306853
A young adult science fiction book, this is the author’s sixth in the Pern Series. The hero switches to learning the drums after his voice change ends his participation in the chorus. Fred created covers for several of these books.
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McCarry, Charles , 1983
E.P. Dutton
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780525241737
An espionage thriller, Fred’s illustration suggests the complexity in which the hero operates. It’s a world in which the communists are unquestionably the villains. Flashbacks touch on the CIA, the Nazis, the Vietnam War and more.
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McDonald, Gregory , 1986
Warner Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780892962464
Here’s an anthology of short mysteries that answers the question “How can crime be funny?” Fred’s clown dies laughing on this jacket, as well as on an audio book of four cassettes. Note the knife’s audacious overhang onto the border.
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McEwan, Ian , 1981
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671428501
Ian McEwan’s second novel, very controversial for its dark vision, was set in an unnamed city with canals. From Fred’s cover, it‘s clear that he saw it as Venice, which is no surprise given his deep attachment to the city.
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McEwan, Ian , 1982
Washington Square Press
First Edition, Paperback
ISBN: 9780671449568
An English couple spend a holiday in an unnamed city, clearly Venice. And who is that intruding himself into the pair’s reflection in Fred’s illustration? This novel, later a major movie, explores the intricacies of an evolving and dangerous relationship with a forceful native.
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McEwen, Todd , 1984
Harper & Row
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780060151645
Fred was always in search of the unexpected visual metaphor, as you can see in this jacket illustration. The book’s main character, who’s been for years carting around an old violin (which he can’t play), loses his sanity at the story’s very beginning.
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McGuane, Thomas , 1989
Houghton Mifflin
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780395488874
A man inherits a ranch in Montana, finding an opportunity to rediscover his past, perhaps to amend his many failures. Fred’s deceptively simple cover illustration captures the landscape, but the shadows that fall behind the letter forms hint at the passage of time and perspective.
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McMahon, Thomas , 1978
Harper & Row
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780060129743
Gordon McKay sets out from Boston in 1855 for Kansas, where he hopes to make a fortune from honey, with his new wife, 15 swarms of bees, and an entourage that includes a group of German music box makers and two alligators. Hard to see how this might end well.
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McMahon, Thomas , 1987
Viking Press
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780670812288
Fred tapped into his collagist instincts to portray the novel’s saga of telephonic connectivity in the time of Alexander Graham Bell and Nikola Tesla. Note the little hands and receivers he invented for the engraved portraits of these historic characters.
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McPherson, William , 1984
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671252519
Fred’s first edition cover for this acclaimed novel presents a charmingly innocent visualization of the book’s title. This is a growing-up tale set in the late 1930s, it’s hero gradually becoming aware of the Depression, developments in Europe, prejudice, sex, death and adultery.
