Book Jackets: All (by year)
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William Wharton, 1978
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394425696
One of our all-time favorites. Fred won the 1980 American Book Award for Jacket Design for Birdy, receiving a Louise Nevelson Sculpture prize. Birdy won the U.S. National Book Award in category First Novel and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1980. In 1984, Birdy was adapted as a film of the same name, directed by Alan Parker and starring Matthew Modine and Nicolas Cage.
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Christopher Cook Gilmore, 1978
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671242916
“It’s hard to describe my way of working, as it’s pretty chaotic. I used to think collage should be my medium because I always seem to be assembling bits and pieces.” Here Fred indulged his affection for pastiche, using images from postcards and snapshots.
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Peter Handke, 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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Thomas McMahon, 1978
Harper & Row
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780060129743
Gordon McKay sets out from Boston in 1855 for Kansas, where he hopes to make a fortune from honey, with his new wife, 15 swarms of bees, and an entourage that includes a group of German music box makers and two alligators. Hard to see how this might end well.
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Hilma Wolitzer, 1978
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780374376253
Fred enjoyed working with the author of this book for young readers. In the mid-70s, his career as a book jacket designer/illustrator was just taking off. He created covers for this poignant novel, and a number of other Hilma Wolitzer hardcover first editions.
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Arthur Calder-Marshall, 1978
Harper & Row
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780060106171
One married the Duke of Devonshire in 1775 when she was 17. The other married the same Duke in 1809 at the age of 52, having been his mistress for twenty-five years. Fred captured the book’s time and flavor in his first edition jacket for this fascinating historical narrative.
