Book Jackets: All (by year)
Displaying 325–360 of 616 book jackets
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Mark Helprin, 1983
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780151972036
This image of Pegasus over a mythical and very cold New York City encapsulated the author’s millennial fantasy. Fred used a combination of aerial photography and skillful airbrushing to achieve an evocative and memorable effect.
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Marianne Wiggins, 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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Judith Rossner, 1983
Houghton Mifflin
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780395339701
What can you say about August? Well, it’s hot, lots of people go to the beach, sunburn... and, aha! All the shrinks go away!
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Sergei Dovlatov, 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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Frederick Barthelme, 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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Thomas Berger, 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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Elizabeth Tallent, 1983
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394528168
This novel’s characters are marked by despair and confusion, with an inability to settle, or to commit themselves to each other. For the first edition jacket, Fred’s feather suggests that its owner has “taken flight” once again, as the title proclaims.
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Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, 1983
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Reissue, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780374182632
Here was an odd project for Fred, but he certainly created a beauty. This book was first published in England, in 1857. Compared in its wisdom to the "I Ching," the Oracle derives its infallibility from a reliable mathematical plan (supposedly). And it’s all about love.
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H. B. Gilmour, 1983
Newmarket Press
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780937858134
When their divorced mother dies, two children are forced to leave their Vermont country home to live with their father, a freewheeling high-fashion photographer who deserted the family long ago. For the novel’s first edition jacket, Fred’s found the visual translation.
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Anne Bernays, 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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Norma Klein, 1983
Dial Press
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780525241881
This is a novel for young-adult readers about exactly what the title proclaims it to be. Shy-boy meets the more-experienced-girl, resulting in trouble. Fred’s first edition jacket sidesteps the obvious by presenting a more oblique image than might be otherwise expected.
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Lee Rosenbaum, 1982
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394513478
In broad strokes, Fred manages to summarize the notion of “art,” without depicting any. Except, of course, his own beautifully rendered illustration.
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Marsha Parker, 1982
E.P. Dutton
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780525241096
Gay Mortenson returns with her husband to his native Oxfordshire, where she finds married life less than she imagined and answers the seductive call of a beautiful man in armor who calls her by name. Unfortunately, he’s a ghost.
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Milan Kundera, 1982
Harper & Row
Revised, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780060149871
“The Joke” relates the serious consequences of a frivolous message that a university student sends his girlfriend by postcard. Fred loved nailing any thought in pictures. As is the case with any joke, there’s no need for further elaboration here.
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Anne Tyler, 1982
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394523811
For the jacket of this book’s first edition, Fred found an image that perfectly reflected the title, as well as the story’s mood and content. He insisted upon reading every manuscript before embarking on its cover, and wished they were all as enjoyable as this one.
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Nancy Lynn Schwartz, 1982
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394411408
This book recounts the political turmoil that shattered the Hollywood community through the 1930s and into the 40s, leading to the House Un-American Activity Committee and the blacklist. Fred captured the essence of the time and the place.
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Tor Seidler, 1982
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780374374136
This is the first edition jacket for a young readers’ novel dealing with the difficulties encountered when a birch forest is bulldozed to make way for a development. Later on, Fred and Tor collaborated on a number of successful projects.
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Thomas Berger, 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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Charles Maclean, 1982
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671255312
A man kills his beloved retrievers, on a sudden unexplained impulse. With the help of his psychoanalyst, he comes to believe that he has been hypnotized, and begins spewing out data on six previous lives he has lived throughout the last thousand years.
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Thomas Berger, 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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Elie Wiesel, 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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Thomas Keneally, 1982
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671449773
When the movie version of “Schindler’s List” debuted in 1993, its success was so immediate that it might seem strange to learn that the fact-based novel upon which it was based first appeared as long as eleven years prior. Fred designed the original first edition hardcover jacket.
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Sara McAulay, 1982
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394518695
Fred often found provocative ways of depicting things that were not there, as in this first edition jacket. The missing party here is “Chance,” the nickname of the heroine’s murdered lover, Chauncey Griffin, a jockey and rodeo showman.
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Ian McEwan, 1982
Washington Square Press
First Edition, Paperback
ISBN: 9780671449568
An English couple spend a holiday in an unnamed city, clearly Venice. And who is that intruding himself into the pair’s reflection in Fred’s illustration? This novel, later a major movie, explores the intricacies of an evolving and dangerous relationship with a forceful native.
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Shelley List, 1982
E.P. Dutton
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780525241324
“Never take candy from a stranger,” said many a parent. An accomplished female photojournalist takes on an assignment that triggers some shocking recollections in this soul-wrenching novel. Fred's illustration reflects innocence betrayed.
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Donald Everett Axinn, 1982
Grove Press
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394528281
It wasn't often that Fred was invited to design a jacket for a book of poems. In some ways the task was akin to inventing the imagery for record albums, which had been his specialty in earlier years. All he had to work with as a jumping-off point, in both instances, was the title. Here his mastery of airbrush technique served to create a haunting image that encapsulated the subject at hand.
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Natalie Babbitt, 1982
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780374329594
In this adult novel, which alternates between the hero’s birth to his death, Herbert Rowbarge has an unknown twin brother. Years after the book’s publication, Fred collaborated with Natalie Babbitt to create the legendary “Ouch” for children.
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David Lozell Martin, 1982
Holt, Rinehart and Winston
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780030604881
When book stores were everywhere in any city, they displayed jackets as art works, as in a gallery. Fred’s belief was that they were, in fact, and above all else, posters. Sometimes the most direct image was the best one, as here.
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Jean Rhys, 1982
Harper Perennial
First Edition, Mass Market Paperback
ISBN: 9780060805791
Jean Rhys is said to have been one of Jackie Kennedy’s favorite authors, with her tales of formerly beautiful but cash-strapped heroines from the 1920s and '30s. Fred created jackets for a series of paperback re-issues, all featuring lovely ladies.
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Gwenyth Hood, 1982
William Morrow and Company
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780688007768
As the cover proclaims, this novel is “historical science fantasy.” In it, aliens come to earth in the 13th century, and change human history. Fred’s eerie montage incorporates the period, and other-worldliness, all at once.
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Dorothy Dunnett, 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.
