Book Jackets: All (by author)
Displaying 469–504 of 616 book jackets
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Rollin, Betty , 1985
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671525972
Betty Rollin was a well known TV journalist before she changed focus to writing. “First You Cry,” an account of her 1975 cancer diagnosis, was a best-seller, followed by “Last Wish,” a book about the issue of assisted suicide for the terminally ill. In confronting the task of creating a cover for the latter book, Fred chose to focus on the universal symbol of comfort for illness and death, with his simple and eloquent painting.
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Ronan, Margaret , 1979
Scholastic Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780590300629
A stylized portrait of Bela Lugosi as Dracula? Why not? The book might just make your spine tingle. It also covers the story of the real Count Dracula, and the truth about vampire bats. Once again, note Fred’s airbrushed background.
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Rosenbaum, Lee , 1982
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394513478
In broad strokes, Fred manages to summarize the notion of “art,” without depicting any. Except, of course, his own beautifully rendered illustration.
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Rosenfeld, Lulla , 1981
Clarkson N. Potter, Inc.
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780517540299
An actress throws the coins of the I Ching to foretell her future. Bad idea. Fred read every novel before beginning to work on its cover. He always aimed to visually “crystalize” (his word) the author’s intention, as was the case here.
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Rossner, Judith , 1990
Summit Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671648589
Again, here’s the “big book look,” with the author’s name greatly overpowering the title, for this first edition. The novel is an update of Louisa May Alcott’s classic, but takes place in Hollywood. Fred managed to marry the two elements with his clever bookmark.
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Rossner, Judith , 1983
Houghton Mifflin
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780395339701
What can you say about August? Well, it’s hot, lots of people go to the beach, sunburn... and, aha! All the shrinks go away!
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Roszak, Theodore , 1985
Doubleday Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385188944
The heroine of this novel has a special gift: she can observe the dreams of others. For the first edition of this haunting psychological thriller, Fred painted a sleeper as seen from above, with virtuosic treatment of the bedsheets’ folds.
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Ruhm, Herbert , 1977
VIntage Books
First Edition Thus, Mass Market Paperback
ISBN: 9780394721569
Black Mask Magazine was a pulp monthly published from 1920 to 1951, which launched such genre superstars as Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett and Erle Stanley Gardner. For this anthology of classic short stories from its pages, Fred envisioned the prototype hero, hard-boiled as they come.
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Sanders, Ronald , 1980
Holt, Rinehart and Winston
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780030194115
Fred’s art scholarship was vast. He mastered visual styles from far and wide, century by century, country by country. For this book about the legendary Kurt Weill, he enjoyed reflecting the typography of Germany in the 1920s and ‘30s.
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Sanders, Scott Russell, 1988
Touchstone Books
Reissue, Paperback
ISBN: 9780671660932
The title essay in this collection describes the author’s upbringing at an Army base/arsenal in Ohio. Fred’s visual summary presents a toy soldier stealthily taking aim at a clover flower. The very rough lettering style was a radical, but entirely apt, departure for him.
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Schele, Linda , 1990
William Morrow and Company
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780688074562
More often than not, publishers relied on Fred to create jackets for their works of ”serious fiction.” On occasion, as here, he was asked to deal with a work of pure scholarship, a study on newly unearthed Maya hieroglyphs. His approach was to simply get out of the way, and present the material under discussion unadorned, although not without some of his typographic wizardry.
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Schneider, Peter , 1984
Pantheon Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394529288
As Steven Heller has written, Fred was a “master of sky.” Here, a bit of it appears framed by the Berlin Wall, the subject of this book, infusing both sky and wall with subtle eloquence. A later edition depicts, guess what? Yep, a man jumping off a wall.
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Marion, Schroeder , 1977
Doubleday Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385124232
Fred used to say that, in his opinion, gardening was the highest art form. In his hands, it certainly was. He was never happier than when working in his many gardens in the upstate New York country house. His illustration for the jacket of this compendium of relevant suppliers is certainly an explicit translation of the title, and also of his self-identity.
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Schwartz, Nancy Lynn, 1982
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394411408
This book recounts the political turmoil that shattered the Hollywood community through the 1930s and into the 40s, leading to the House Un-American Activity Committee and the blacklist. Fred captured the essence of the time and the place.
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Schwarz, Boris , 1987
Touchstone Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671604615
For this collection of short biographies of the world's greatest violinists, Fred created a powerful illustration in his favorite medium of the time, airbrush. The instrument bursts out of its designated location, defying the viewer to question its importance.
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Seaman, Barbara , 1987
William Morrow and Company
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780688050108
One reviewer said, “‘Valley of the Dolls’ is amazingly entertaining, but unless you've read ‘Lovely Me,’ you don't know Jacqueline Susann.” Dirt is dished, her countless affairs with the famous described (including one with Ethel Merman!), along with drug binges, and lots more.
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See, Carolyn , 1987
McGraw-Hill
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780070561205
The heroine of this novel moves to sunny California. She finds love and wealth, but the Great Threat looms. How do you visually marry two of this novel’s main theme’s, celebration and nuclear holocaust? Fred found a way.
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Seidler, Tor , 1982
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780374374136
This is the first edition jacket for a young readers’ novel dealing with the difficulties encountered when a birch forest is bulldozed to make way for a development. Later on, Fred and Tor collaborated on a number of successful projects.
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Seidler, Tor , 1990
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780374272517
Tor Seidler, was a good friend of Fred’s, as well as a collaborator on two children’s books, “A Rat’s Tale,” and “Wainscott Weasel.” Between those two projects, Tor wrote his first work of adult fiction. Needless to say, Fred was delighted to create its jacket.
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Sennett, Richard , 1984
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394513003
A cellist, who uses his music to keep emotions at bay, finds the fulness of spiritual reality after a tragic accident. Fred often chose to depict evocative shadows, rather than actuality, to capture a mood.
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Shapiro, Stanley , 1986
Random House
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394550312
The protagonist is still in mourning for his older brother who was killed in the Vietnam War. By way of a time machine, he travels back to Nov. 22, 1963 in an attempt to prevent the day's tragedy. But would that, as the hero believes, have prevented the war, and thus his personal loss?
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Shepard, Jim , 1983
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394532653
It’s probably not unusual for a thirteen-year-old boy to fantasize about escaping parental burdens by just flying away. In this book for young readers, the hero does just that. As usual, Fred found a way to tell the story in one image.
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