Book Jackets: All (by author)
Displaying 505–540 of 616 book jackets
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Singer, Mark , 1985
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394532363
As the jacket copy declares, this book is about the 1982 Penn Square Bank debacle. Fred’s bubbly dollar sign gurgles out of all those oil wells, in much the same way that real money erupted out of the Oklahoma boom-time landscape.
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Sklepowich, Edward , 1990
William Morrow and Company
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780688091804
Fred’s year in Venice as a Fulbright scholar greatly influenced his visual vocabulary throughout his life. This first edition jacket was an invitation to savor “La Serenissima,” its symbols and its romanticism, even artfully spilling over onto the book’s spine.
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Skvorecky, Josef , 1984
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394505008
Writers are said to have been described by Joseph Stalin as “engineers of human souls.” In this jacket for a comic novel by a Czech emigré, Fred presented the book’s title in an unexpected but entirely appropriate way.
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Skvorecky, Josef , 1985
Pocket Books
First Edition, Paperback
ISBN: 9780671556822
For the paperback edition of this acclaimed comic novel, Fred allowed the title to spill out of the author’s typewriter in an unexpected fashion, while highlighting an endorsement by the famed Milan Kundera.
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Skvorecky, Josef , 1991
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394572208
The hero of this comic novel dozes in a rural Bohemian church when a statue of St. Joseph begins to move on its pedestal. The clergy call it a miracle, but the Communist secret police declare it a fraud, which culminates in the torture and murder of the attending priest.
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Skvorecky, Josef , 1987
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394546810
This is an anecdotal novel, its title referring not only to Anton Dvorak's love for the beautiful elder sister of the woman he married, but also to his more fruitful love for the folk tunes, spirituals and jazz that captured him on his visit to America in the 1890's.
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Smith, Rosamond , 1987
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671644680
This novel by Joyce Carol Oates, under a pseudonym, was often described as a “taut psychological thriller.” For the first edition jacket, Fred asked a friend to pose for this Jekyll & Hyde-esque double portrait. It reflects the very divergent natures of the two title characters, both psychiatrists, as well as identical twins.
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Smith, Mary-Ann Tirone, 1985
Doubleday Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385196734
This coming-of-age novel introduces a self-confident young woman who might remind some readers of a female Holden Caulfield. When she learns she’s pregnant at nineteen, she travels to Paris to “bear fruit,” just as Fred’s oblique image might suggest.
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St. Aubin de Terán, Lisa , 1981
Harper & Row
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780060152390
Three Venezuelan exiles move restlessly back and forth on the local train between Paris and Milan, along with a 17-year-old English girl who has married one of them. Fred’s ultra-diagonal jacket illustration captures the retro romance many of us have about European railways.
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Starr, Kevin , 1985
Oxford University Press
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780195034899
Subtitled “California Through the Progressive Era,” this historical reconstruction traces the state’s unique evolution during the early years of the 20th century, with a focus on the Hollywood phenomenon. Fred’s image captures the essence of the time and place.
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Strauß, Botho , 1977
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
First American Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780374138523
A bookseller is despondent when his girlfriend leaves him. He decides to get her back by writing a magnificent novel. An “all-type” cover, yes, but how on earth did Fred manage to come up with that twisted title lettering?
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Swift, Graham , 1984
Poseidon Press
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671498634
Although Fred loved to provide clients with his illustrations, if he could find just the right photograph, he extracted his own ego from his jacket submissions. Here, this tinted photo of a river’s sluice in The Fens of East Anglia was too perfect to resist.
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Swift, Graham , 1984
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671546137
As a man teaches his son to swim, his wife ruminates about their unhappy marriage and dysfunctional family. Fred’s oblique visual metaphor sets the tone for this series of short stories from England. Note the subtle water ripples as the toy boat goes under.
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Swift, Graham , 1985
Washington Square Press
Reissue, Paperback
ISBN: 9780671546120
Prentis, the narrator of this nightmarish novel, catalogs "dead crimes" for a branch of the London Police Department, and suspects that he is going crazy. Fred’s startling image hints at the subversive machinations involved in uncovering a legacy of blackmail and betrayal.
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Tallent, Elizabeth , 1983
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394528168
This novel’s characters are marked by despair and confusion, with an inability to settle, or to commit themselves to each other. For the first edition jacket, Fred’s feather suggests that its owner has “taken flight” once again, as the title proclaims.
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Theroux, Paul , 1987
Pocket Books
Reissue, Paperback
ISBN: 9780671638443
For this paperback re-issue, Fred chose to marry a camera lens to a windmill, an apt combination for this satirical novel about an aging photographer’s wistful reminiscences. The strong diagonal thrust of his typography counterpoints the windmill’s structure and arm.
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Theroux, Paul , 1986
Washington Square Press
First Edition Thus, Paperback
ISBN: 9780671602895
This paperback reissue of "Doctor Slaughter," (1984), retitled "Half Moon Street," was released in the lead-up to the release of the film adaptation starring Sigourney Weaver and Michael Caine. It presents two short novels on the theme of a double life. Although they differ in scene and character, both are full of a kind of eerie menace. Fred found an interesting way to visualize the premise.
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Thomas, Ross , 1979
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671246532
After World War II, a spy and a dwarf conceive a plan to find a Nazi killer and deliver him to the Allies. Fred shows us a swastika invaded by the shadow of a man “off camera,” as someone else (the dwarf?) looks on.
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Thomas, D. M. , 1980
Viking Press
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780670762927
For the first edition of this phantasmagorical novel, Fred broke one of his own rules: “I avoid simply depicting a specific scene....” Well, this image is taken from the text, however it depicted an analysand’s dream-life, thus evidently seemed within his bounds.
