Book Jackets: All (by author)
Displaying 145–180 of 616 book jackets
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Dickinson, Charles , 1991
William Morrow and Company
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780688102258
Fred achieved an astonishing sense of scale and dimension for this novel’s jacket by using simple elements: two newspapers coming together with graduated tone, and type in bands of color. Look at the changing shapes as the shadows descend down the page.
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Disch, Thomas M., 1976
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394498034
One of the short stories in this collection presents an office temp who prepares a sumptuous meal for her date, Death. “It's all exhilarating and not terribly serious,” according to the New York Times review. Fred played with the title here, for the book’s first edition jacket.
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Dolto, Francoise , 1972
Doubleday Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385145428
In the same way that Freud interpreted the Oedipus legend, not as a tale of one unfortunate Greed king, but as a pattern, this book attempts to apply events of the Gospels to modern laws of the unconscious. The cover’s haunting medieval face stares at the viewer, seeming to invite the probe.
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Dooley, H.H. , 1981
Doubleday Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385157421
Here’s a political fantasy for our times. A disgraced former president is plotting a comeback, while a terminally ill genius is plotting to assassinate him, confiding his plans only to his psychiatrist. Doctor-patient confidentiality?
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Dovlatov, Sergei , 1983
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394528557
The pen, the sky, the road. Anyone familiar with Fred’s book jackets will recognize all three elements as staples in his visual vocabulary. Here, they meet for “The Compromise,” the tale of the massive dissembling required of writers working within the USSR.
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Dovlatov, Sergei , 1985
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394535227
For the first edition jacket of this satirical novelization subtitled “A Prison Camp Guard’s Story,” Fred once again found a way to put the typography to work. It’s “the big book look,” but the ominous and gigantic letter forms serve as a barrier against an arid world.
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Drabble, Margaret , 1987
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 0000000000000
It’s hard to imagine a more dramatic “all-type” cover than this one, for the American first edition of Margaret Drabble’s masterful chronicle. The novel explores the lives of three Englishwomen who reunite twenty-five years after their days at Cambridge.
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Drury, Allen , 1979
Doubleday Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385144346
For this novel by Allen Drury, the master of political fiction, author of “Advise and Consent,” Fred’s cover representation hints at the machinations awaiting a young, newly-elected senator as he confronts Washington politics.
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Dubal, David , 1989
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671492380
David Dubal’s handbook “... must be read by everyone who loves the instrument," said Vladimir Horowitz, and it’s hard to imagine a more impressive endorsement than that. Fred’s keyboard close-up for the jacket celebrates the instrument, pure and simple.
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Dunnett, Dorothy , 1984
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394523774
Fred was invited to create jackets for this series, “The Dolly Mysteries.” Here he juxtaposes his rendered tropical flowers with a silhouetted portrait of the heroine as she journeys to the Caribbean in a luxury yacht.
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Dunnett, Dorothy , 1982
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394523767
Another jacket for “The Dolly Mysteries” series. Each of these books has a different heroine, this time a nanny. She becomes embroiled in a kidnap plot. Fred follows through with his signature lifesaver image, and appropriate silhouette.
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Ehrlich, Amy , 1991
Viking Press
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780670837335
This is the tale of a 17-year-old who lives near Atlantic City. Deeply troubled by her mother’s recent death, she dresses up in her clothes, and begins to explore the casinos. Fred set up a stack of cards, asked a friend to pose, and painted this image from life.
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Elkin, Stanley , 1991
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671673246
Fred fought hard to get the publisher to eliminate the italic repetition of the title, “The MacGuffin.” After all, the whole point of a MacGuffin is neglecting to notice what’s in plain sight. He wanted the reader to find the name of the book! Alas, the marketers won.
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Ende, Michael , 1985
Doubleday Books
Reissue, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385190930
Once again, Fred pays homage to Magritte, with a little de Chirico thrown in, for this first edition jacket. Momo is an orphan who lives under the stage of an old Italian amphitheater, happily, until the arrival of the “gray men” whose mission is to steal time from the town’s good citizens.
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Erickson, Carolly , 1984
Summit Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671503925
What better way to present a book about Henry the Eighth than to simply reproduce the renowned portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger? Fred chose to mute the painting’s colors, perhaps to allow the title to take center stage, with his exquisite typographic treatment.
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Falletta, Nicholas , 1988
D. C. Heath and Company
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 0000000000000
Reading certainly can be said to “open doors.” Fred’s illustration for this edition of the “Language Arts” series suggests that great adventures await within books. His hope was that in some small way, his cover art for all of these texts would convey a sense of fun to youngsters.
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Falletta, Nicholas , 1988
D. C. Heath and Company
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 0000000000000
The “Language Arts” series was a delightful project for Fred. The challenge was to present the image of books in a context that would appeal to young readers. Here we see them arranged into a cityscape. As was often the case during these years, the airbrush played a big role.
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Falletta, Nicholas , 1988
D. C. Heath and Company
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 0000000000000
An unexpected twist here for another book in the Language Arts series. Fred loved the late-Renaissance paintings of Arcimboldo, who achieved fame by concocting human faces out of fruits and vegetables. Why not books, pens, typewriters and paper clips? Young readers would likely enjoy the frivolity.
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Falletta, Nicholas , 1988
D. C. Heath and Company
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 0000000000000
TA-DA! Presenting a star-studded cast, the alphabet takes center stage in this edition of the “Language Arts” series. Fred took great pleasure in finding new and surprising settings for books. He hoped that his own love of reading would spread to new generations.
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Falletta, Nicholas , 1988
D. C. Heath and Company
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780669123814
Here is another in the Language Arts series, aiming to encourage a love of reading in children. Summer camp might provide an array of fun activities during the day, but what better form of entertainment might present itself at night than to hunker down with a good book?
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Falletta, Nicholas , 1988
D. C. Heath and Company
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780669123807
A swarm of books are attracted to light in this edition of the “Language Arts” series. Or perhaps the books themselves generate ideas. Or “enlightenment.” No matter what the interpretation, Fred’s illustration seems entirely appropriate.
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Falletta, Nicholas , 1988
D. C. Heath and Company
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780669137354
Fred greatly enjoyed creating covers for this series, published by his good friend Nick Falletta, which endeavored to instill a love of reading in children. This one was “level 1,” thus for the youngest target audience, presenting a garden abloom with a joyous array of books.
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Falletta, Nicholas , 1988
D. C. Heath and Company
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780669123838
For this edition of the “Language Arts” series, Fred created a courthouse made of books. Perhaps some young reader might be inspired by the illustration to pursue a career in law. Well, maybe that’s a bit of a stretch. But it was certainly a charming and unexpected array.
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Falletta, Nicholas , 1988
D. C. Heath and Company
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780669137361
For this edition, one of several he designed for a series of Heath language textbooks, Fred found another way of presenting books. Personally, he found them delicious, and hoped to impart that same feeling in young readers. Of course, crayons had to be a part of the picture.
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Falletta, Nicholas , 1983
Doubleday Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385179324
Fred found a way to turn the “impossible illustrations” of the subtitle into letterforms for its title presentation, to everyone’s amazement. The author of the widely acclaimed book of paradoxes was a dear friend, and the author of Pulcinella Press’s “The Art of Fred Marcellino.”
