Book Jackets: All (by author)
Displaying 217–252 of 616 book jackets
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Goddard, Robert , 1989
Poseidon Press
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671649470
The author is famous for his twists and turns. The subsequent choice of a maze for the cover art seems to be exactly the visual “mot juste.” Note his initial swash caps: Fred collected old type books and loved to resurrect long-neglected fonts.
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Goldman, Laurel , 1981
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394519357
Publishers frequently asked Fred to create jackets for works of “serious fiction,” like this novel by a new author. In this book, a patient is trying to find his way, “sounding the territory,” from within a mental institution. Once again, Fred found just the right visual metaphor.
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Goldstein, Rebecca , 1991
Viking Press
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780670835560
When an eccentric novelist moves to New England to focus on her current book, she’s plagued by phone calls from her silly but dangerous sister. Fred enjoyed the beauty of tinted photographs, and unusual period typefaces.
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Goodman, Eric K., 1980
Holt, Rinehart and Winston
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780030471667
When Fred designed record album covers in the 60s, he had nothing to go on except the title, often the name of the first song on Side A. For this novel’s jacket, he chose to literally translate the title of the book into visual form, through use of an elegantly designed photographic montage.
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Gordimer, Nadine , 1990
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780374217518
The novel’s setting is Johannesburg during apartheid. Sometimes Fred felt that a type treatment could convey a book’s mood as well as an illustration, as in this first edition jacket. As always, he designed the spine with as much care as the cover’s face. The very next year, the novel’s author, Nadine Gordimer was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, and the Swedish Academy explicitly cited My Son’s Story in their press release, calling it ”ingenious and revealing and at the same time enthralling.“
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Gould, Jean , 1985
HarperCollins
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780688049706
This novel covers a lot of territory, some of it quite disjointed. Fred seems to have focused on the title as a jumping-off point for this jacket, rather than exploring the actual content. He created a heartfelt depiction of nostalgia.
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Gould, Lois , 1988
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Reissue, Paperback
ISBN: 9780374521806
Fred’s strangely off-kilter format for this series of Lois Gould re-issues seems to aptly reflect the author’s world-view. In this novel, she uses the legend of Eva, Juan, and Isabel Peron to reveal the ways in which illusion is made to create legend.
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Gould, Lois , 1988
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
First Edition, Paperback
ISBN: 9780374521073
The 1970s brought about Womens’ Lib, and at its forefront were several female authors, among them Lois Gould. Fred created this format, and several jackets, for a series of re-issues. In this one, the heretofore masochistic heroine “discovers herself” through writing.
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Gould, Lois , 1988
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780374271541
Fred’s silhouette introduces us to an intriguing cast of characters: a weak boy-king, his neurotic queen, her dwarf, the king's mistress, and a fortune-hunting magician. The action is set in an imaginary European Kingdom during the Renaissance.
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Gould, Lois , 1988
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
First Edition, Paperback
ISBN: 9780374521080
Her 1970 debut novel “Such Good Friends” received a great deal of attention at the dawn of Women’s LIb. Years later, Fred created jackets for four paperback reissues of Lois Gould’s books, featuring this offbeat, asymmetrical, and apt format.
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Gould, Lois , 1988
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Reissue, Paperback
ISBN: 9780374520854
This is a bizarre fantasy about a mild woman transformed by rage. A former model flees to a remote island after she is raped and embarks on a strange new life. Fred adhered to this asymmetrical format for several paperback reissues of Lois Gould’s novels
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Greenberg, Eric Rolfe , 1983
Everest Publishing House
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780896961715
In the tradition of novels such as “Ragtime,” this is an artful blending of fact and fiction, as two brothers develop a case of hero-worship for one of baseball’s earliest super-stars. Christy Mathewson’s career is chronicled here and is echoed in Fred’s classic baseball-card inset.
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Greene, Annie , 1985
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671498153
This is a melodramatic novel about three women from a small river town whose lives revolve around a local ne’er-do-well. Fred’s evocative painting captures the mood, inviting us to speculate about the doings behind that one lighted window.
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Grosskurth, Phyllis , 1980
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394501505
The subject of this book, born in the hey-day of Victorian Britain, bravely took on the task of writing frankly about human sexuality in all of its dimensions. When dealing with a straightforward biography such as this one, Fred often chose to confine his artistry to typographic design, while allowing photography to just do what it does best. To tell it like it is.
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Grove, Lee , 1984
Faber & Faber
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780571125265
With a flamboyant swirl, an unseen but no doubt glamorous young lady performs her “last dance.” When the value of book-jacket-as-poster is taken into consideration, this great swath of color was surely an attention grabber on the store shelves.
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Haining, Peter , 1976
VIntage Books
First Edition, Paperback
ISBN: 9780394721095
This book presents the sensation-packed, nickel and dime publications that brought the stuff of dreams to millions of ordinary people from the 1920s to the ‘40s. The jacket was an early one for Fred, and it’s easy to see how much he enjoyed creating it.
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Hall, Donald , 1990
Oxford University Press
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780195038132
In 1908, Picasso gave a banquet for Rousseau, who insulted his host royally in one of this book’s fascinating anecdotes. Fred chose to illustrate the disgruntled Douanier, evidently observing that, with modern art, as in his masterpiece, it’s “a jungle out there.”
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Handke, Peter , 1978
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780374184971
Fred’s jacket for this novel might be called “minimalist.” His linear isometric drop shadows echo tops and bottoms and rights and lefts. Insider information: the book's translator was Ralph Manheim, who also translated Fred’s “Puss in Boots” under a pseudonym!
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Hannah, Barry , 1978
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394500218
Always controversial, the author’s Southern Gothic messaging often provoked outrage, as was the case in this series of short stories. Fred found a visual metaphor for the book’s title, a type treatment at once airy, while also bombastic.
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Hannah, Barry , 1989
Houghton Mifflin
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780395488829
No one ever accused Barry Hannah of subtlety, and the same can be said of Fred’s typography for this first edition jacket. Kirkus described the autobiography as, “More booze-addled ranting and red-necked rambling from the bad old boy of southern fiction...”
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Hannah, Barry , 1985
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394544588
“Barry Hannah persists in making rude noises,” wrote the reviewer for Time Magazine, continuing “…Captain Maximus is full of spite, rage, booze and unregenerate boorishness.” For the first edition, Fred managed to make his all-type cover appropriately intrusive.
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Harrigan, Stephen , 1984
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671449452
Fred’s cover art seems to tell the whole story. The novel takes the reader deep into the mysterious passageways of a Central Texas aquifer…and of the human heart…by superimposing a geological map on the main character’s profile. It promises a thorough probe into both domains.
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Harris, Mark , 1984
McGraw-Hill
First Edition, Paperback
ISBN: 9780070268456
The New York Times called this novel “extravagantly funny,” and one might say the same for Fred’s jacket illustration. The entire book is a series of letters to and from an impotent writing professor. Not much to add to that…
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Harrison, Fraser , 1985
Pantheon Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394546940
Looking at family life from a man’s vantage point, this chronicle follows the ups and downs of fatherhood in a small English country home. The writer clearly relishes his role as observer of four-year-old Tilly and three-year old Jack.
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Haviaras, Stratis , 1984
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671492915
How children are affected by war, how they survive—if they survive—and how their childhood is stolen from them, are the themes of this novel. This soulful portrait of the book’s 12-year-old narrator says it all.
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Haviaras, Stratis , 1979
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671247546
The landscape in this small Greek town has no trees and water, “only an illusion of trees and water.” In this presumably autobiographical and poetic novel set in a small Greek town during the German occupation, a boy is left with his Grandmother when his parents disappear and are presumed dead.
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