Book Jackets: All (by author)
Displaying 397–432 of 616 book jackets
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Mears, Richard C. , 1980
Wyndham Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671610326
The book is subtitled “A Fictional Memoir,” and is often compared to Huck Finn, as Fred’s first edition jacket might suggest. It presents the life of a boy growing up on the banks of the Patuxent River, as he grapples with the issues of growing up in a mixed-race society.
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Metz, Don , 1988
HarperCollins
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780060158781
Before leaving for Vietnam, Harmon Woodard demands to know if the child his wife is carrying is his, or his twin brother’s. For the first edition jacket, Fred delivered a moody landscape enhanced by a shimmering background. Note the elegant use of type, always so crucial in his work.
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Michaels, Leonard , 1981
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780374207823
Fred’s first edition jacket projects an appropriately masculine self-confidence. The novel—notoriously misogynistic—describes one evening among seven men who gather in a house in Berkeley. They start a men’s club, the purpose of which isn’t immediately clear to any of them.
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Miles, Barry , 1989
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671507138
In part thanks to early friendships with renegades like Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg occupies an enduring position in American literature. This biography’s New York Times review refers to “...the strange leap Mr. Ginsberg was always making between sanity and madness.”
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Minot, Stephen , 1979
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780060129781
The viewer supplies the unacknowledged horizon line here, with the help of the elegant water foul’s wiggly reflection, as he stands in unseen water. For this first edition’s jacket, Fred delivered an appropriately ghostly image with great subtlety.
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Mitchell, Reid , 1989
Touchstone Books
First Edition, Paperback
ISBN: 9780671686413
Northern and Southern men went to war as Americans, each one convinced that they fought an un-American, savage enemy. Here are two of them, enhanced by Fred’s period type treatment, and signature “swag.”
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Mordden, Ethan , 1987
Oxford University Press
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780195044256
Amazing how archaic the sight of a phonograph record appears now. This one makes a spectacular grand entrance as the curtain parts. In his book jackets for fiction, Fred had the author’s subtle vision to portray, but not for a compendium such as this one.
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Morris, Jan , 1985
Random House
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394532622
Another book by author Jan Morris, which was shortlisted for the 1985 Booker Prize for Fiction. When it seemed appropriate, Fred loved paying homage to his favorite artists, as here. For this first edition jacket, he presents a variation on one of de Chirico’s 1913 piazza scenes. The mood conveyed exactly suits Morris’s strange travelogue.
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Morris, Jan , 1984
Oxford University Press
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780195034523
This captivating book of essays, mostly on the author’s observations in cities around the world, has become a classic. Fred’s meandering road suggests that unexpected revelations will be found over every hill, and at every twist and turn, by the observant chronicler.
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Munro, Alice , 1983
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394529523
The solar system is the focus of the last conversation between the narrator and her father in the title story of this riveting collection. A recent visit to the planetarium stirs their wonder at the enormity of the universe and its meaning as death looms. The book was nominated for the 1982 Governor General's Award for English Fiction.
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Murdoch, Iris , 1988
Viking Press
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780670819126
The broken Staffordshire figurine exactly suits the action presented in this novel, for Fred’s first edition jacket. The story echoes “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” chronicling the misadventures of a sprawling cast of upper-middle-class British sorts.
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Murdoch, Iris , 1989
Viking Press
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780670829996
Dame Murdoch’s 24th novel plays with the concept of multiple viewpoints in an arbitrary, Roshomon-like universe. With this tinted engraving, Fred presents a lonely chair as reflected in two mirrors, with two distinctly different points-of-view.
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Neugeboren, Jay , 1985
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671543723
The novel’s main character has assumed a new identity to escape from his past as the nephew of a well-known Jewish gangster from Brooklyn in the 1950s. He is haunted by memories of his first family, wife, and daughter. For the first edition jacket, Fred’s still life synthesizes the hero’s two lives.
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Nevins Jr., Francis M., 1978
G. P. Putnam's Sons
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780399122033
This is a novel of political intrigue involving the corruption of a judge. The jacket displays two of Fred’s favorite visual themes, the air-brushed sky, and typography that conveys a ”voice” appropriate to the book’s message.
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Noonan, David , 1991
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671689803
A seventeen-year-old protagonist from a small town in the 1960s comes of age by way of a summer job on the Jersey shore. For the book’s first edition, Fred captured the humor and pathos for this author’s debut novel. Don’t miss the dot on the “i.”
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Norris, Gloria , 1985
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394545028
The New York Times reviewer said of the title character, he is “... a ladies' man who reminds women of Jesus Christ, David Merrick, Diaghilev, and Laurence Olivier.” For this first edition jacket, Fred presented us with an elusive romantic hero, there, but not quite.
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North, Elizabeth , 1981
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394519685
This is an account of life in an English girls’ school during the 1940s, and the influence it had on the students in later years. Fred’s out-of-focus period illustration sets the stage for the nostalgic journey.
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O'Connor, Philip F., 1991
Summit Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671731557
The main character in this novel, a young man with Down’s syndrome, struggles to join the outer world after having been confined to an institution where he was punished by placement in solitary confinement. Fred's jacket illustration suggests the torment of that quiet isolation.
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O’Connor, Varley , 1991
William Morrow and Company
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780688094447
Set in East Hampton, this novel tells the tale of two dysfunctional families, and their unlikely alliance. For its first edition jacket, Fred tinted a rather dour beach photo, juxtaposing it with a discordant, fanciful, in-your-face hand-lettered panel.
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Oliver, Donald , 1982
Avon Books
First Edition, Paperback
ISBN: 9780380791941
Is there such a thing as acrobatic typography? In this case, the book’s title boldly takes center stage to announce that the contents within are sure to provoke laughter, presenting comedic sketches by the twentieth century’s most celebrated wits.
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Olshan, Joseph , 1989
Doubleday Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385265058
A seven-year-old boy is the only witness to the drowning of a two-year-old neighbor. He assumes guilt, even though it was an accident. Fred’s first edition jacket subtly depicts the scene without actually doing so. Note the still subtler echoes of the type at both top and bottom.
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Olson, Toby , 1986
Random House
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394547152
This is the bizarre adventure of a man, in love with a gentle prostitute, who meets sadistic porn filmmakers exploiting a pair of rare miniature horses and saves the injured mare. Fred’s first edition jacket tangentially reflects the story’s strange twists.
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