Displaying 577–612 of 616 book jackets
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Welt,
Elly ,
1986
Viking Press
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780670809257
In this novel, a Jewish boy is hidden from the Nazis in a laboratory dedicated to the genetic study of flies. Fred used this appropriate imagery to symbolize the look and feel of the decay which prevailed during that period in Berlin.
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West,
Jessamyn ,
1980
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780151264025
The author traveled to Europe in 1929, where she kept a detailed account of her days. Fifty years later, when in her seventies, she revisited her journals, diaries and letters. This book examines what she learned about herself in the process.
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Wharton,
William ,
1978
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780394425696
One of our all-time favorites. Fred won the 1980 American Book Award for Jacket Design for Birdy, receiving a Louise Nevelson Sculpture prize. Birdy won the U.S. National Book Award in category First Novel and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1980. In 1984, Birdy was adapted as a film of the same name, directed by Alan Parker and starring Matthew Modine and Nicolas Cage.
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Wharton,
William ,
1989
Avon Books
First Edition,
Paperback
ISBN:
9780380585946
Our archives include two versions of this cover, one for the hardcover first edition, the other for the paperback. Fred had great success with his work on the author’s previous “Birdy,” winning the National Book Award for that jacket.
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Wier,
Allen ,
1983
Simon & Schuster
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780671433079
This novel chronicles the memories of Jessie as she nears the end of her life. Fred’s lonely cactus flower captures the mood, as the heroine looks back on her complicated history, finding a lot to celebrate after all.
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Wiesel,
Elie ,
1982
Simon & Schuster
First Edition,
Paperback
ISBN:
9780671441715
One reviewer said this book is “...a loving, personal affirmation of Judaism, written with words and with silence, capturing the essence of Hasidism through tales, legends, parables, sayings, and deeply personal reflections.” And it's another of Fred’s eloquent first edition jackets. Fred won the 1983 American Book Award for Jacket Design for Souls on Fire, receiving a Louise Nevelson Sculpture prize.
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Wiggins,
Marianne ,
1983
Random House
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780394532554
“I avoid simply depicting a specific scene. And I don’t believe in just illustrating the title—why say it twice?” In this jacket illustration, Fred managed to avoid breaking his own rule by a clever maneuver. No checks, but we get the whole story.
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Wilcox,
James ,
1985
Harper & Row
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780060154417
“North Gladiola” is the street address of this novel’s small, homey diner in Tula Springs, Louisiana. A mélange of unlikely characters congregates there, including members of a local string quartet. Fred’s art for this first edition evokes the paintings of Edward Hopper.
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Wilson,
Robley ,
1989
Simon & Schuster
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780671679194
Fred’s first edition jacket for this collection of short stories summarizes their common thread, what one reviewer called “the heart’s geography, a notoriously treacherous terrain.” Even here, behind his lipstick explosion, Fred couldn’t resist the hint of a Venetian sky.
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Woiwode,
Larry ,
1981
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780374236304
The title character of this novel played the role of Poppa John on a TV soap for twelve years. But, alas, the writers have killed him off. Thus, he is not only out of work, but is too closely identified with his part to find other acting jobs. In Fred’s first edition jacket, his shadow greets a former self.
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Wolfe,
Tom ,
1987
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9785551180005
“So the critical moment occurred when I came up with the image of two cities, the city of privilege and the poorer city, the real city, and an image of that city reflected.” – Fred Marcellino, “Covering Tom Wolfe,” How Magazine, September/October 1988. Bonfire of the Vanities won the Ambassador Book Award for Fiction in 1988. In 1990, it was adapted into a film directed by Brian De Palma and starring Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, and Kim Cattrall.
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Wolff,
Tobias ,
1985
Houghton Mifflin
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780395354162
This is the first edition hardcover jacket for a widely reprinted collection of short stories.. Frustrated, lonely and divorced from their youthful expectations, Tobias Wolff's disaffected heroes drift through the present by telling assorted stories and lies.
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Wolitzer,
Hilma ,
1988
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780374264222
As their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary approached, Paulie resolved to leave Howard and finally take control of her life. But then Howard suffered a heart attack. Fred’s image of a tucked-away wedding-cake couple visually summarizes the complications.
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Wolitzer,
Hilma ,
1978
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780374376253
Fred enjoyed working with the author of this book for young readers. In the mid-70s, his career as a book jacket designer/illustrator was just taking off. He created covers for this poignant novel, and a number of other Hilma Wolitzer hardcover first editions.
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Wolitzer,
Hilma ,
1984
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780374384562
On the rare occasions where it was possible, Fred liked to incorporate a book’s title within an image, as is the case here. This novel for young readers was about a 13-year-old boy who goes to live with his grandfather in Florida.
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Wolitzer,
Hilma ,
1980
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780374168704
A road trip, a stepmother and her new daughter getting acquainted. Another one of those tests of Fred’s mantra: “Never Illustrate the Title.” Well, there is a heart in there, but it just wanders in ever-so subtly. Pure Marcellino.
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Wolitzer,
Hilma ,
1983
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780374176563
Fred used the image of rumpled bed sheets in several of his book jackets. He considered them to be part of his ‘‘visual vocabulary,” along with floating faces, fountain pens, and interrupted walls. This book's author was a good friend, and he delighted in creating most of her first edition covers.
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Worth,
Valerie ,
1983
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780374328283
This is a tale for young readers featuring a girl who runs away from home to join a band of gypsies after her parents try to marry her off to a wealthy middle aged man. She winds up enjoying her new life and the people she meets. Fred's airbrushed image shows us her means of travel, framed by tarot card insets.
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Worth,
Valerie ,
1986
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780374327835
Young readers enthusiastically embraced this Gothic novel immediately upon its publication. The spooky landscape, the inevitable mansion, and the ghostly presence that wandered about the premises, were all embodied in Fred's jacket art. It wasn't unusual for Fred to allow a disembodied face to hover in the sky.
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Wright,
William ,
1991
Simon & Schuster
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780671684594
Christina Onassis was always famous, born to staggering wealth, but plagued with grave personal misfortunes. Fred chose to simply present a lovely tinted photo, but surrounded it with clashing, stylized forms and type.
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Wright,
William ,
1986
Simon & Schuster
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780671526870
As was often the case when Fred was commissioned to create a cover for a biography, he felt that a straightforward photograph couldn’t be improved upon. However, he couldn’t resist the placement of this photo into a nostalgic airbrushed still life, with his signature type treatment.
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Wurlitzer,
Rudolph ,
1984
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780394536101
Fred’s ultimate career fantasy: Lincoln Center commissions him to do the sets for a new Met production of an old Italian opera. He had done stage design for various plays in his youth, so knew well what a “slow fade” looked like from behind the scenes.
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Wynd,
Oswald ,
1977
Harper & Row
First Edition,
Paperback
ISBN:
9780060147297
Masterpiece Theatre produced a miniseries based on this novel. The author, a Scot born in Japan, tells the tale of a young Scottish woman who sails to the Far East to be married, but falls in love with a Japanese aristocrat, to the horror of the British.
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Yehoshua,
A.B. ,
1977
Doubleday Books
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780385025904
The jacket image summarizes the mood of this book’s three short stories. In each of them, the Israeli author illuminates the stark realities of his country’s wartime sacrifices. Fred’s simple landscape tells it all.
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Yehoshua,
A.B. ,
1984
Doubleday Books
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780385155748
Yes, the book is about a massively dysfunctional family, and a “late divorce,” but it’s symbolically about “the great debate between Israel and the Golah (exile),” a topic of obsessive concern to the author. The cover illustration synthesizes the theme without belaboring the larger issues.
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Zindel,
Bonnie ,
1980
Harper & Row
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780060268473
The cover image Fred created for this first edition novel for young readers conveys the young heroine's dilemma: her mother, who is dying, desperately wants her to become a ballerina. But sixteen year-old Brooke wants only to be in love.
Displaying 577–612 of 616 book jackets
Welt, Elly , 1986
West, Jessamyn , 1980
Wharton, William , 1978
Wharton, William , 1981
Wharton, William , 1989
Wier, Allen , 1983
Wiesel, Elie , 1982
Wiggins, Marianne , 1983
Wilcox, James , 1985
Wilson, Robley , 1989
Woiwode, Larry , 1981
Wolfe, Tom , 1987
Wolff, Tobias , 1985
Wolitzer, Hilma , 1988
Wolitzer, Hilma , 1978
Wolitzer, Hilma , 1984
Wolitzer, Hilma , 1980
Wolitzer, Hilma , 1983
Worth, Valerie , 1983
Worth, Valerie , 1986
Wright, William , 1991
Wright, William , 1986
Wurlitzer, Rudolph , 1984
Wynd, Oswald , 1977
Yehoshua, A.B. , 1977
Yehoshua, A.B. , 1984
Zindel, Bonnie , 1980
