Book Jackets: All (by author)
Displaying 109–144 of 616 book jackets
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Clark, Eleanor , 1986
G. P. Putnam's Sons
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780399131226
Camping out isn’t always fun, as is made clear in this harrowing account of two women in an isolated tent by a Vermont lake. Fred’s beautiful artwork features some lovely irises, but one of them seems to be in trouble.
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Clarke, Mary , 1982
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394513072
Once again, publishers, authors, and editors turned to Fred for jackets concerning books about ballet, knowing that he was an avid fan. Here is a photo of Merrill Ashley in a perfect arabesque.
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Clarke, Gerald , 1988
Hamish Hamilton Limited
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671228118
When commissioned to create a cover for a well-known person’s biography, most often the best solution is to find a compelling photo. But Fred loved typography, and managed to uplift any image with its sensitive use.
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Cohan, Tony , 1981
Doubleday Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385170864
“The Canary” is a famous singer who dies mysteriously in this novel about the pop music industry. The record album jacket was a very familiar canvas for Fred, who designed a great many of them throughout the 1960s and ‘70s.
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Conrad , Peter , 1987
Poseidon Press
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671643539
As a devoted opera buff, Fred particularly enjoyed designing this first edition jacket. The New York Times reviewer declared that “This is an astonishing book. I know of no other opera survey tossed off with such exuberant verbal virtuosity.”
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Conrad, Joseph , 1978
Doubleday Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385007719
Fred was excited about the opportunity to work on this cloth-bound first edition of excerpts from Joseph Conrad’s only journal. He took pleasure in seeking out just the right fabric, and keeping the typography understated.
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Boyle, Thomas Coraghessan, 1990
Penguin Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780670814893
This is a complex, layered, novel about three families in the Hudson Valley. Fred loved to poke holes in reality and did so on many occasions. And he could never resist a sky. Note the shadows cast by the title, another persistent element in his visual vocabulary.
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Corley, Edwin , 1980
Doubleday Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385150187
Happily, this is a work of fiction. A small fissure has opened up in a rock located in the middle of Central Park, which forewarns of a volcanic explosion that will cause the entire city’s destruction in hours. Fred's illustration simply tells it straight, there's the rock, the spewing steam, and skyscrapers in the distance.
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Cortazar, Julio , 1980
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394507217
For this compilation of short stories, Fred played off the book’s title with his typography. The letter forms are defined solely by their drop shadows. Through a glow, we’re looking up at the title, and down at the author’s name.
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Covington, Vicki , 1988
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671660550
This novel, set in Alabama, explores the angry gulf between the religious left and the religious right, through the eyes of a spirited young woman. An adoptee, she seeks and finds her birth father, who turns out to be both agnostic and homosexual.
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Crawford, Stanley G., 1972
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394481371
This book jacket was one of Fred’s first, and possibly the very first. At this early stage of his career, he was newly enchanted by the prospect of reading every word of the novels he was being asked to present in visual form. He loved this one. The Unguentines were a couple who spent their entire married life on a land-covered barge, steering clear of civilization. He greatly enjoyed finding a way to depict their tiny universe.
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Currie, Ellen , 1986
Summit Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671554323
As the jacket illustration suggests, a lot of people are concerned about the disposition of “Dorinda’s baby.” Fred found a way to incorporate the publisher’s desire for reviewers’ quotes without destroying his concept.
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D’Alpuget, Blanche , 1981
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671492410
An Australian photojournalist leaves her family to cover the story of Vietnamese boat people. In his eloquent cover illustration for the book’s first edition jacket, Fred juxtaposed the serenity of the setting with the refugees’ desperate plight.
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D’Alpuget, Blanche , 1986
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671498085
“It is no news that the Middle East as a whole, and Israel in particular, are afflicted by perpetual tension and hostilities. What is less known, trickier to write about, are the internal debates that have gone on for at least 3,750 years,” according to the NY Times in its review of this novel.
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Dahl, Roald , 1980
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394510118
“The greatest fornicator of all time,” Uncle Oswald anticipates the concept of the sperm bank by some 40 years, flimflamming crowned heads, great artists, and eccentric geniuses into making "donations." Christopher Lehman-Haupt called it "a festival of bad taste.”
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Daley, Robert , 1983
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671470579
An ex-patriot, post WW II, executes the perfect crime by robbing a bank in Nice. He’s pursued by an idealistic cop. In Fred’s jacket image, the culprit appears to step casually out of the postcard’s picture plane. Trouble ahead.
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Dann, Patty , 1986
Houghton Mifflin
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780899194714
For centuries, men have been fantasizing about mermaids, but what do mermaids fantasize about? Fred chose in this instance to play with the title rather than the plot. The book became a major Hollywood film starring Cher and Winona Ryder, by the way.
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Dew, Robb Forman, 1981
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780374134501
This book won the National Book Award in 1982, in the category of First Novel. Fred always read any work of “serious fiction” cover-to-cover before embarking on the creation of a jacket, in order to fully understand the author’s intention.
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Dickinson, Charles , 1989
William Morrow and Company
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780688089245
For the novel’s first edition jacket, Fred nailed the exact visual metaphor. This is the story of two elderly widowed sisters who resolve to embark on an adventure, leaving their cozy home in Chicago for LA. One is blind, but she’s the only one who knows how to drive.
