Book Jackets: All (by author)
Displaying 541–576 of 616 book jackets
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Thompson, Joyce , 1984
Doubleday Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385188647
The Place is a colony for the deformed offspring of nuclear accident victims. But it flourishes peacefully. The events in this book are hair-raising, but Fred chose to depict a moment of calm before the turmoil set in.
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Thubron, Colin , 1985
Atlantic Monthly Press
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780871130235
It's clear how much Fred admired Magritte in this evocative illustration for the book's first edition jacket. Set in a lunatic asylum and in a boys' public school in Wales, this riddle of a tale is told by a hypersensitive, unreliable narrator. Even the asylum might be imaginary.
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Tinsley, Molly Best, 1991
Houghton Mifflin
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780395577851
No, not that Darwin, although the heroine is married to a philanderer name Darwin Charles. Her memories as the daughter of missionaries, and the tribal woman who cared for her, help her understand that sometimes the survival of the fittest depends on the quality of forgiveness.
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Tournier, Michel , 1984
Doubleday Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385153546
The stories presented in this book deal with “the sordid supernatural” (the author's own description of his work). In one of them, an erotomaniac has escaped from a mental asylum, where he’d been confined after trying to retrieve a garter belt from a woman in the metro. Can that be the object that Fred chose to place on the bookshelf?
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Tournier, Michel , 1987
Doubleday Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385237598
A man named Idris lives in a culture which regards “portrayers” (painters and sculptors) as the purest of evil doers. He finds a jewel, a drop of pure gold, in the sand. He regards it as an antidote to imagery. Fred’s first edition jacket presents the premise with simple eloquence.
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Towle, Alexandra , 1986
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671638597
As the cover type announces, this is a compilation of prose, poetry and photography dedicated to the celebration of fatherhood. Fred loved to use silhouettes, when appropriate, to convey a sense of the historical past. In this case, his images also suggest the passage of time.
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Tracy, Robert , 1983
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671461461
Fred was a ballet-lover, especially during the Balanchine years. He was often called upon by publishers to create relevant book jackets. Here is a simple, eloquent photo of the Master and his Muse, Suzanne Farrell.
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Trevelyan, Raleigh , 1987
Touchstone Books
Reprint, Paperback
ISBN: 9780671669775
In her New York Times review of this exhaustive examination of the British Raj, Jan Morris stated, “It may well be one of the last in the long line of Anglo-Indian memoirs, and by a happy chance it is certainly one of the best.” Fred chose this tinted photo as a visual summary.
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Tryon, Thomas , 1989
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394560069
Is Fred’s image for this first edition’s jacket romantic? Or tragic? Well, actually, it’s night time in a summer camp. The novel tells the tale of the pulse-quickening goings-on at Moonbow Lake one summer as “the new boy” upsets the rhythms of camp life.
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Tuska, Jon , 1978
Doubleday Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385120937
The cover is a testament to Fred’s love of typography, and in the case of the words “in Hollywood,” a carefully hand-rendered feat of the airbrush. The letterforms are non-existent, defined only by their drop shadows.
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Twain, Mark , 1988
Doubleday Books
Reissue, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385232449
The editor reinserted some elements of Twain’s original novel, to the chagrin of many purists. Fred’s cover plays it straight, using one of his favorite devices, the ghosted and oversized secondary portrait looming in the sky.
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Tyler, Anne , 1982
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394523811
For the jacket of this book’s first edition, Fred found an image that perfectly reflected the title, as well as the story’s mood and content. He insisted upon reading every manuscript before embarking on its cover, and wished they were all as enjoyable as this one.
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Tyler, Anne , 1985
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394546896
Not easy to be a guy who writes travel guidebooks, but would prefer to stay home reading. How do you depict the thought? Fred always strove to “...reflect the book’s feeling. If a book is good, images just come forth. I think there’s a real correlation between the quality of a book and the quality of the cover I produce.” The book was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction in 1985 and the Ambassador Book Award for Fiction in 1986. It was also adapted into a 1988 award-winning film starring William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, and Geena Davis, for which Davis won an Academy Award.
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Tyler, Anne , 1977
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394411477
Fred was Anne Tyler’s preferred book jacket designer. He enthusiastically crystalized her words in his images on many occasions. In this case it’s clear that the heroine has decided to vacate her premises, as the title suggests.
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Tyler, Anne , 1975
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394498485
When this novel was published in its first edition, Fred had only recently begun his career as a book jacket designer. As always, he saw himself as being in service to the author’s intentions. Here, the main character searches for his long-missing cello-playing brother.
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Upchurch, Michael , 1981
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394511504
A fifteen-year-old boy unenthusiastically goes to an all-day Scout Jamboree with his father. Lots of male bonding ensues, not all of it happily. Fred’s straightforward first edition jacket combines multiple profile silhouettes against a transitional airbrushed background, as day turns to night.
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Van de Wetering, Janwillem , 1985
G. P. Putnam's Sons
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780345332578
To summarize this Zen-tinged series of eleven short stories set in Kyoto, Fred borrowed imagery from Japanese prints. The sleuth-hero has a predilection for the non-traditional, things like motorcycles and undercover entrapment. Presumably, he also smokes.
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Vendler, Helen , 1988
Random House
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394535203
In 1988, PBS Television aired a highly acclaimed series of programs on American poets, with this hardcover book offered as a companion to the shows. Fred succinctly encapsulated the title’s scope. And included another of his signature airbrushed skies.
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Vickers, Hugo , 1980
Holt, Rinehart and Winston
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780030447518
Fred delighted in an opportunity to enhance his cover art with embellishments from the Belle Epoch, especially those incredible art nouveau typefaces. This biography enlightens the reader about one of the period’s most celebrated beauties. It’s a tale of a life suffused with turmoil.
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Volkov, Solomon , 1985
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671622558
On his influences, Fred said, “...But just as important for me is music, both orchestral and operatic. That’s a rather abstract influence, I guess, but it’s very much a part of my work.” He would certainly have the said the same of Balanchine’s ballets.
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Vollman, William T., 1990
Viking Press
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780670832392
In this speculative history, the time is the tenth century A.D. The newcomers from Iceland call their newly discovered land “Vinland the Good.” The natives are a bronze-skinned race who have not yet discovered iron and still see themselves as part of nature.
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Vollman, William T., 1987
Atheneum Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780233980225
“The electric and insect wars unfold through comic episodes depicting the confrontations of reactionaries, revolutionaries and bugs,” wrote the NY Times about this author’s debut novel. For its first edition, Fred visually captured the whole, complicated epic.
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Walker, Walter , 1983
HarperCollins
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780060151454
There were times when Fred felt that a photograph could tell the story better than an illustration, and here was one such case. To evoke the mood for this mystery, he applied airbrushed tone over an old print. The whole effect leans heavily on that central street light.
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Walker, Walter , 1985
Harper & Row
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780060154080
Fred created several jackets for books by Walter Walker, with the visual theme of evocative tinted photography. For this first edition, we might surmise that the action takes place in San Francisco. Walker is a full-time trial attorney there, with a unique perspective on crime.
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Walker, Walter , 1986
HarperCollins
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780060156466
Although on one level this is a taut murder mystery, it is more an exploration of morality and circumstance told from five points of view. Fred’s first edition jacket echoes the image he created for Walker’s earlier “A Dime to Dance By,” which also used stark photography.
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Warner, Sylvia Ashton , 1986
Simon & Schuster
Reissue, Paperback
ISBN: 9780671617684
The author lived in New Zealand, and spent many years teaching Maori children. She found that British teaching methods were not effective, so she devised an approach widely regarded as strikingly relevant to the education of socially disadvantaged children today.
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Watkins, Paul , 1990
Houghton Mifflin
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780395551363
The author recounts the story, based on actual events, of an aviator who, mired in the Foreign Legion in 1918, managed to stay alive under highly improbable circumstances. For this first edition jacket, Fred’s portrait captured the hero’s cocky optimism.
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Waugh, Hillary , 1978
Doubleday Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385127486
Another police/crime/detective novel by this pioneering, and very prolific, mystery novelist. The challenge, in trying to present a visual interpretation of the author’s intention, was to echo the ominous without the specifics.
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Wells, Tobias , 1977
Doubleday Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385073318
Fred was a master at synthesizing two or more ideas in one stark image. His Christmas ornaments, each bearing that awful skull, reflect the holiday theme, while suggesting the novel’s ominous events.
