Book Jackets: All (by year)
Displaying 469–504 of 616 book jackets
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Bonnie Zindel, 1980
Harper & Row
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780060268473
The cover image Fred created for this first edition novel for young readers conveys the young heroine's dilemma: her mother, who is dying, desperately wants her to become a ballerina. But sixteen year-old Brooke wants only to be in love.
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Hilma Wolitzer, 1980
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780374168704
A road trip, a stepmother and her new daughter getting acquainted. Another one of those tests of Fred’s mantra: “Never Illustrate the Title.” Well, there is a heart in there, but it just wanders in ever-so subtly. Pure Marcellino.
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D. M. Thomas, 1980
Viking Press
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780670762927
For the first edition of this phantasmagorical novel, Fred broke one of his own rules: “I avoid simply depicting a specific scene....” Well, this image is taken from the text, however it depicted an analysand’s dream-life, thus evidently seemed within his bounds.
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Bruce Chatwin, 1980
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671412531
Francisco Manuel da Silva was a Brazilian from the 1800s who became the most powerful slave trader in West Africa. For this rococo novella’s jacket, Fred’s portrait on a decaying stucco wall seems to capture his brutality through understatement.
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Richard C. Mears, 1980
Wyndham Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671610326
The book is subtitled “A Fictional Memoir,” and is often compared to Huck Finn, as Fred’s first edition jacket might suggest. It presents the life of a boy growing up on the banks of the Patuxent River, as he grapples with the issues of growing up in a mixed-race society.
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Roald Dahl, 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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Gillian Bradshaw, 1980
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671250935
The author, with a penchant for history, sets this book about Gawain in 6th Century Britain, shortly after the withdrawal of the Roman Empire from the islands. For the first edition jacket, Fred presents an appropriately rendered image of her famous hero.
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Frank Hercules, 1980
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780151699216
Set in Trinidad, the novel brutally satirizes the island's racial caste system and the entire social hierarchy the British had put in place prior to independence in the 1960s. For the first edition jacket, Fred presented a witty interpretation of the main character’s Exodus.
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Milan Kundera, 1980
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394508962
John Updike wrote in his NY Times review, “This book, as it bluntly calls itself, is brilliant and original.” Fred loved Milan Kundera’s works, and often created their covers. In this one, be sure to check out what’s going on in that drop-shadow.
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Michael French, 1979
Doubleday Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385143349
In this novel, Abingdon's is the most glamorous and successful department store in New York (think Bloomingdale's). This novel explores the political machinations within this fantasy palace for the super-rich and the hyper-chic. The trendy shopping bag on Fred's first edition jacket says it all.
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Madeleine L’Engle, 1979
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780374362997
The novel tells of a girl named Vicky, and her struggle to understand life and significance as she deals with her dying grandfather, while at the same time finding love. Fred created the first edition jacket for this famous book, the winner of numerous awards. It was a Newbery Honor Book in 1981. It also won the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award, the California Young Reader Medal (1982) and the Colorado Children's Book Award (1983).
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John Hawkes, 1979
Harper & Row
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780060118082
This novel presents Konrad Vost, the ferociously repressed father of a teenaged daughter whose “appalling womanhood” he refuses to recognize. For this first edition’s jacket, Fred chose to depict a flirtatious but surprisingly hollow Eros.
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Stephen Minot, 1979
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780060129781
The viewer supplies the unacknowledged horizon line here, with the help of the elegant water foul’s wiggly reflection, as he stands in unseen water. For this first edition’s jacket, Fred delivered an appropriately ghostly image with great subtlety.
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Anne Chisholm, 1979
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394492001
The jacket blurb says, “The beautiful and rebellious English heiress who in the twenties became a symbol of flaming youth and a bright comet of literary Bohemia...” How could any designer resist the use of her glamorous photo for the book's first edition?
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Brian Aherne, 1979
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671247973
Was actor George Sanders, who committed suicide in 1972 at age 65, really a dreadful man? Perhaps. But here, through the eyes of best (nearly only) friend Brian Aherne, he's just a one-dimensionally pathetic one—spending his last 15 years of life as a roving curmudgeon.
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Robert Marasco, 1979
Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780440070603
When an ad woman falls in love with one of her clients, a charming toy-company tycoon, little does she know what she's getting into. She then learns about his last girlfriend, who died, a supposed suicide. Fred’s illustration for the novel’s first edition jacket hints at trouble ahead.
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Elizabeth Gilmore Holt, 1979
Anchor Press
First Edition, Paperback
ISBN: 9780385135115
The status of the artist was forever changed by the French Revolution, as is revealed in this collection of documents published between 1785 and 1848. Painters and sculptors were no longer subject to the dictates of patronage. Fred’s illustration expresses this breath of fresh air.
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Carole Klein, 1979
Harper & Row
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780060124236
Aline Bernstein, a stage designer, met Thomas Wolfe when she was 44, and he was 24. Their ensuing affair was fraught with heartbreak, shifting dependency, and, on her part, self-debasement. For the first edition, Fred introduced the couple within an Art Deco framework.
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Stratis Haviaras, 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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Peter Benchley, 1979
Doubleday Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385131728
The author of "Jaws" did it again in this thriller about a reporter and his son who journey to a remote archipelago. Their mission is to unravel the mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle. For the first edition jacket, Fred presented the “big-book-look,” but with a touch of the ominous.
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Ross Thomas, 1979
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671246532
After World War II, a spy and a dwarf conceive a plan to find a Nazi killer and deliver him to the Allies. Fred shows us a swastika invaded by the shadow of a man “off camera,” as someone else (the dwarf?) looks on.
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Lionel Black, 1979
Avon Books
First Edition, Mass Market Paperback
ISBN: 9780380436613
The paperback was the fourth book in the author’s Kate Theobald Mystery Series, this one the tale of murder set in a “fat farm.” Fred sometimes used the device of a skull in unexpected locations, here produced by the juice of a healthy, non-fattening grapefruit. Why not?
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Paddy Kitchen, 1979
Harper & Row
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780060124069
It’s been said that Fred revolutionized the book jacket. He insisted on reading the entire manuscript before beginning to design any cover. In this case, one image tells us a tale of marriage, and cozy domesticity. But that key?
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Anne McCaffrey, 1979
Atheneum Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780689306853
A young adult science fiction book, this is the author’s sixth in the Pern Series. The hero switches to learning the drums after his voice change ends his participation in the chorus. Fred created covers for several of these books.
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George C. Chesbro, 1979
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671246259
This is the third book in The Mongo Series, featuring a detective with a genius IQ, who happens to be a dwarf. As the jacket art implies, the threat of death lurks, but the hero’s gift for examining the occult saves the day.
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Margaret Ronan, 1979
Scholastic Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780590300629
A stylized portrait of Bela Lugosi as Dracula? Why not? The book might just make your spine tingle. It also covers the story of the real Count Dracula, and the truth about vampire bats. Once again, note Fred’s airbrushed background.
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Stephen Geller, 1979
Harper & Row
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780060114930
A reviewer described this novel as one about “parapsychologist espionage.” Gad works for British Intelligence, headed by a witch. Since he possesses ESP, his powers are of great use to the agency. Fred’s ominous ball in the sky containing the book’s title foreshadows what the reader might encounter within its pages.
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Hilde Bruch, 1979
VIntage Books
First Edition, Paperback
ISBN: 9780394726885
This is considered to be the classic study on the subject of anorexia nervosa, a little-understood syndrome at the time of its publication. Over the years, this volume has proven to be of great use to patients and doctors alike. Certainly the jacket commission was a change of pace for Fred, but he found a way to gracefully illuminate the subject in one succinct image.
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Barbara Abercrombie, 1979
Harper & Row
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780060100216
It's about a rape and a murder, but manages to be essentially comedic as well. It's a bit surprising that, at this early stage in Fred's jacket-designing career, he was able to convince the publisher that this conceptual cover would be a good idea. Yep, nothing there. Good riddance.
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James C. Hogan, 1979
Anchor Press
First Edition, Paperback
ISBN: 9780385145190
The book’s title is very straightforward, and so is Fred’s cover. This is a highly respected discourse on the subject at hand, reportedly based on a new and improved translation. Similarly, Fred was able to breathe new life into a traditional depiction from ancient iconography with his bold design.
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Allen Drury, 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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