Displaying 37–72 of 616 book jackets
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Banks,
Iain ,
1984
Houghton Mifflin
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780395362969
In this jarring novel, the main character finds an old clock in a garbage dump, into which he places a wasp. Behind each numeral there’s a trap leading to a means of ritual death. Fred’s choice of a harsh, disjointed graphic serves as a foil for the insect’s plight.
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Barker,
Clive ,
1986
Poseidon Press
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780671626860
For this first edition of a horror classic, Fred took his inspiration from one of the book’s five stories, “The Body Politic.” A man’s hands have a night-time life of their own. As envisioned in this illustration, they also have a haunting beauty.
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Barker,
Clive ,
1986
Poseidon Press
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780671626877
AGGHHH! Well, Stephen King said, “I have seen the future of horror, and its name is Clive Barker.” For the classic’s first edition jacket, Fred chose an interpretation of its title story, in which a prisoner watches as his cellmate is transformed into a monster.
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Barnard,
Judith ,
1986
Washington Square Press
Reissue,
Paperback
ISBN:
9780671618322
In the middle of the night, a middle-aged professor of political science discovers that his wife has evaporated into thin air. One reviewer commented, “...by the time the novel ends, the reader may be wondering why she waited so long to depart.”
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Barthelme,
Frederick ,
1984
Simon & Schuster
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780671474416
It’s a world in which human values are overwhelmed by a profusion of sitcoms and commercials. For the first edition of Barthelme’s premier novel, Fred depicted a vapid, Hopper-esque interior, in which the real sky is reflected on an outward-facing TV screen.
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Barthelme,
Frederick ,
1983
Simon & Schuster
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780671472689
Here is Barthelme’s debut collection of short stories confronting the contemporary American landscape. Fred used totally minimal imagery here, punctuated only by those telltale handrails to inform us of what we’re looking at. Very reminiscent of David Hockney.
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Bean,
Henry ,
1982
Poseidon Press
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780671442514
The hero decides to fall in love with a woman he has never met. He knows of her existence only by having overheard mention of her in his roommate’s phone conversation. The themes presented in this novel mesh perfectly with some of Fred's favorite pictorial devices: shadows, windows, and skies.
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Benchley,
Peter ,
1979
Doubleday Books
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780385131728
The author of "Jaws" did it again in this thriller about a reporter and his son who journey to a remote archipelago. Their mission is to unravel the mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle. For the first edition jacket, Fred presented the “big-book-look,” but with a touch of the ominous.
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Bergen,
Candice ,
1984
Simon & Schuster
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780671252946
Sometimes Fred concluded, especially when commissioned to create a jacket for a biography, that the most appropriate solution was to just present an exquisite photograph. But his creative juices couldn’t resist the opportunity to enhance it with some elegant typography.
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Berger,
John ,
1980
Pantheon Books
Reissue,
Paperback
ISBN:
9780394739670
In 1972, the author won a Booker Prize for this novel set in the late 19th and early 20th century, in which the sexual misadventures of a Don Juan are intermixed with historical details of the period. For the jacket of this paperback reissue, Fred chose to show a couple in a hurry to somewhere, probably not anywhere they'd like others to know about.
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Berger,
Thomas ,
1982
Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780440011316
Fred produced book jackets for a number of Thomas Berger novels. This one introduces the reader for the first time to Carlo Reinhart, an army medic in Berlin after World War II. It’s a coming-of-age tale in which his protagonist learns something about love, chaos, and madness.
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Berger,
Thomas ,
1982
Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence
First Edition,
Paperback
ISBN:
9780440572589
Corporal Carlo Reinhart bids goodbye to the neuropsychiatric ward in which he has spent the last half year of service to return to civilian life, his Midwest hometown, to Maw, Paw, and further self-definition. Fred created a number of jackets for Berger’s “Reinhart” novels.
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Berger,
Thomas ,
1981
Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence
First Edition,
Paperback
ISBN:
9780440074083
Fred created the covers for a number of books by Thomas Berger. This first edition presents the fourth in his classic “Reinhart” series, as middle-aged Carlo continues his bewildering encounters with women, while struggling to become a world-class master chef.
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Berger,
Thomas ,
1983
Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780440028338
This book is a masterpiece of cynical and nasty slapstick humor involving the Bullards and the Beelers, two families at war, from an American small town in the 1930s. Note the manner in which the pie’s juicy contents slithers down onto the type panel.
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Bernays,
Anne ,
1983
Little, Brown and Company
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780316091954
When a book editor loses, then finds her address book, she discovers that it now contains the names of five unknown people written in her own handwriting. As Fred’s first edition cover suggests, her encounters with these supposed strangers have revelatory consequences.
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Betts,
Doris ,
1981
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780394517988
A small town librarian heads west for a vacation with relatives when she is kidnapped at gunpoint by a stranger. She and her abductor wind up at the Grand Canyon. Fred's jacket art weaves these essential elements together visually, using a shadow, cast on a scenic card, to capture the plot’s most critical moment
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Black,
Lionel ,
1979
Avon Books
First Edition,
Mass Market Paperback
ISBN:
9780380436613
The paperback was the fourth book in the author’s Kate Theobald Mystery Series, this one the tale of murder set in a “fat farm.” Fred sometimes used the device of a skull in unexpected locations, here produced by the juice of a healthy, non-fattening grapefruit. Why not?
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Black,
Lionel ,
1978
Doubleday Books
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780380413768
A crank phone caller manages to bring out the fire brigade, empty a theatre, and stop a train. Then things get serious. Fred seems to have incorporated the entire story into this illustration, up to and including that portentous skull.
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Anthony,
Blond ,
1978
Harper & Row
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780060103644
Fred’s eloquent business sign tells us in a flash that the title must refer to a respected establishment with a long history. In the novel, set in 1936, the main character has the responsibility of maintaining a successful company, but in addition, he feels obliged to manipulate the family’s exuberant private lives.
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Bourgeau,
Art ,
1986
Crown Publishing Group
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780517556023
The subtitle says it all: “Over 2,500 mysteries, detective stories, and suspense thrillers described and rated for aficionados.” The book’s rating system consisted of one to five daggers. Fred chose to depict an apt (if creepy) devotee of the genre for the first edition jacket.
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Boyd,
William ,
1988
William Morrow and Company
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780688077617
A misunderstood genius tells his own story from his birth in 1899 to his successful career as a Hollywood director. His one great ambition was to make a movie of “The Confessions” of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, whose own experiences uncannily parallel those of the novel’s hero.
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Boyer,
Rick ,
1988
Houghton Mifflin
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780395427385
When any whale sounds, the swirl left in the water – its “footprint" – is unique. Whales’ footprints are invoked in this thriller, as the hero’s son is suspected of murdering a friend. For the first edition jacket, Fred managed to incorporate a skull-like cloud.
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Boylan,
Clare ,
1983
Summit Books
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780671467500
Who removed the holy pictures from that wall, and why? Fred’s illustration, with an economy of means, finds a way to suggest that they were no longer relevant. The novel is about two Irish girls from the 1920s, and their struggle to break away from their restrictive upbringing.
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Bradbury,
Ray ,
1985
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780394547022
The undisputed Dean of American Storytelling veered from science fiction into mystery for this tale of mayhem set in Venice, California in the 1950s. Fred’s first edition jacket hints at bizarre events, including puzzling, and sometimes fatal, “accidents.”
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Bradshaw,
Gillian ,
1982
Simon & Schuster
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780671435127
This is the final book in a trilogy of fantasy novels written by the author. It tells the story of King Arthur's downfall, as recounted by his wife Gwynhwyfar (an unfamiliar spelling of her name to most of us). Fred’s graphic cover illustration captures the dramatic magnitude of the mythic event.
Displaying 37–72 of 616 book jackets
Banks, Iain , 1984
Barker, Clive , 1986
Barker, Clive , 1986
Barnard, Judith , 1986
Barthelme, Frederick , 1984
Barthelme, Frederick , 1983
Bean, Henry , 1982
Benchley, Peter , 1979
Bergen, Candice , 1984
Berger, John , 1980
Berger, Thomas , 1982
Berger, Thomas , 1982
Berger, Thomas , 1981
Berger, Thomas , 1983
Bernays, Anne , 1983
Betts, Doris , 1981
Black, Lionel , 1979
Black, Lionel , 1978
Anthony, Blond , 1978
Bourgeau, Art , 1986
Boyd, William , 1988
Boyer, Rick , 1988
Boylan, Clare , 1983
Bradbury, Ray , 1985
Bradshaw, Gillian , 1982
