Book Jackets: All (by year)
Displaying 397–432 of 616 book jackets
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Leonard Michaels, 1981
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780374207823
Fred’s first edition jacket projects an appropriately masculine self-confidence. The novel—notoriously misogynistic—describes one evening among seven men who gather in a house in Berkeley. They start a men’s club, the purpose of which isn’t immediately clear to any of them.
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Tamás Aczél, 1981
Pantheon Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394512600
“Two pairs of spectacles confront each other on the cover of ‘Illuminations,’” observed D. M. Thomas in his New York Times review. The novel deals with a Hungarian dentist who loses his eyesight. Ophthalmic references abound throughout the book, so why not?
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Alexandra Marshall, 1981
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394507576
The novel’s heroine is founder and president of Phoebe's Fudge, a Connecticut company gone public, which suddenly becomes the target of a raid by a monster conglomerate. For the book’s first edition jacket, Fred chose to depict a direct visual translation of the title.
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Blanche D’Alpuget, 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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Jonathan Fast, 1981
Random House
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394515298
“In every woman’s dreams, there is a beast,” proclaims the first edition jacket. The heroine is a starlet whose beloved manager disappears in the Mojave Desert. Her search for him leads to a reclusive mad genius with a face so disfigured that he must wear a mask in public.
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Larry Woiwode, 1981
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780374236304
The title character of this novel played the role of Poppa John on a TV soap for twelve years. But, alas, the writers have killed him off. Thus, he is not only out of work, but is too closely identified with his part to find other acting jobs. In Fred’s first edition jacket, his shadow greets a former self.
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Doris Lessing, 1981
Touchstone Books
First Edition, Paperback
ISBN: 9780671428099
“Africa gives you the knowledge that man is a small creature, among other creatures, in a large landscape,” said Doris Lessing, as quoted in this edition’s jacket summary. Fred’s cover art steps back from that observation, and lets his minimalist image express the thought. Fred won the 1982 American Book Award for Jacket Design for African Stories, receiving a Louise Nevelson Sculpture prize.
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Lisa St. Aubin de Terán, 1981
Harper & Row
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780060152390
Three Venezuelan exiles move restlessly back and forth on the local train between Paris and Milan, along with a 17-year-old English girl who has married one of them. Fred’s ultra-diagonal jacket illustration captures the retro romance many of us have about European railways.
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Michael Upchurch, 1981
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394511504
A fifteen-year-old boy unenthusiastically goes to an all-day Scout Jamboree with his father. Lots of male bonding ensues, not all of it happily. Fred’s straightforward first edition jacket combines multiple profile silhouettes against a transitional airbrushed background, as day turns to night.
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Frederick Busch, 1981
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780374272463
One reviewer said this novel “...offers tragedy, comedy, insanity, infidelity and comical klutziness, but more than anything else this is a love story and an intense examination of what family means.” Fred’s moody jacket illustration echoes the isolation of the story’s coastal Maine setting.
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David Levering Lewis, 1981
VIntage Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394495729
Tremendous optimism filled the streets of Harlem during the decade and a half following World War I. This account recaptures the excitement of those times, displaying the hope that black Americans could create important art, and compel the nation to recognize their equality.
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Elizabeth North, 1981
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394519685
This is an account of life in an English girls’ school during the 1940s, and the influence it had on the students in later years. Fred’s out-of-focus period illustration sets the stage for the nostalgic journey.
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Pamela Chais, 1981
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671251963
A notorious and much-disliked Hollywood talent agent is murdered, and the detective assigned to investigate happens to be a former child star, once the victim's client. As always, Fred tried to encapsulate any author's intention in one succinct image.
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Doris Betts, 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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Robb Forman Dew, 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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Timothy Findley, 1981
Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780440024774
Once again, Fred chose to depict a visual metaphor for the title of this novel about the last days of World War II, as a frozen corpse is discovered in an Alps prison, with desperate and revealing scrawls on all of the walls and ceilings.
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Danny Peary, 1981
Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780440016267
The book is a series of essays about the cult film phenomenon. From his star-studded background panel to his Hollywood letter forms, it’s obvious that Fred greatly enjoyed the iconic imagery that allowed his type to “talk.”
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Jean Rhys, 1981
Harper Perennial
First Edition, Mass Market Paperback
ISBN: 9780060805807
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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Lulla Rosenfeld, 1981
Clarkson N. Potter, Inc.
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780517540299
An actress throws the coins of the I Ching to foretell her future. Bad idea. Fred read every novel before beginning to work on its cover. He always aimed to visually “crystalize” (his word) the author’s intention, as was the case here.
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Kin Platt, 1981
J. B. Lippincott & Co.
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780397319459
A fifteen-year-old boy lacks confidence about his ability to be the fastest runner on his high school’s track team, until he happens upon a science fiction movie that changes everything. This cover illustration tells the whole story.
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Bob Randall, 1981
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671426309
A woman keeps receiving phone calls from an evil force. She can’t convince anyone that these calls are real. Fred’s mastery of airbrush helps to create the eeriness here. Then came the computer.
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Ian McEwan, 1981
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671428501
Ian McEwan’s second novel, very controversial for its dark vision, was set in an unnamed city with canals. From Fred’s cover, it‘s clear that he saw it as Venice, which is no surprise given his deep attachment to the city.
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Barbara Pym, 1981
Harper Perennial
First Edition, Paperback
ISBN: 9780060805494
Fred was always enthusiastic about creating jackets for anything written by Barbara Pym. In this case, it turned out to be her final novel. Once again, the heroine is a middle-aged Englishwoman. She travels to a small village intending to write a treatise on recent social changes. But her anthropological objectivity is compromised when she meets Tom, the vicar.
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Barbara Pym, 1981
Harper Perennial
First Edition, Paperback
ISBN: 9780060805500
Once again, Fred had the opportunity to create a book jacket for a work by one of his favorite authors. This novel was first published in 1958, and was noteable at the time for its reference to homosexuality, rarely dealt with in the period’s literature. For this later edition, Fred returned to use of a classic silhouette, reflecting the demure heroine looking into a small mirror (nope, too early for an iPhone).
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Nancy Hayfield, 1980
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780374124830
A new twist on life as a suburban housewife is examined here, Fred’s title does a clean sweep of the house in an unexpected fashion. Note the slender shadow, cast by the type, that falls subtly onto the floor.
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Seon Manley, 1980
Doubleday Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385153638
“Recommended for any fan of dolls, or anyone creeped out by them,” wrote one reviewer about this anthology, which features relevant writings by assorted authors, many of them very notable, like Agatha Christie and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Fred's illustration undeniably captures the spirit of the genre.
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John Berger, 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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Richard H. Francis, 1980
Pantheon Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394509907
A thriller, it’s a bizarre and horrifying journey about the insane and somehow consistent logic of a mass murderer. Fred’s signature star-studded sky is a serene foil for the monster’s strange portrait. Where did that title typeface come from?
