Book Jackets: All (by year)
Displaying 541–576 of 616 book jackets
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George Fox, 1978
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671226817
Ever since World War II ended, a gigantic Japanese named Kurusu, has been terrorizing the Philippine jungles, thinking he is keeping the Emperor's honor alive. Fred’s first edition jacket, once again, nailed the premise while offering this poster-esque attention-grabber.
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Rick DeMarinis, 1978
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780374123642
From the earliest days of his career as a book jacket designer, Fred was in demand by publishers for first editions of “serious fiction,” as was the case here. The novel features the hospital-bed notebooks of the late Ulysses Cinder, recounting his adventures with an actual genie.
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John Gardner, 1978
Doubleday Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 780385124621
World War Two scattered wreckage all over Europe, including the title airplane. One wonders how Fred was able to find this shot, and how he managed to wrap the plane’s name so convincingly before the 3D digital art make the task simpler.
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Hillary Waugh, 1978
Doubleday Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385127486
Another police/crime/detective novel by this pioneering, and very prolific, mystery novelist. The challenge, in trying to present a visual interpretation of the author’s intention, was to echo the ominous without the specifics.
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George C. Chesbro, 1978
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671240035
The second book in the Mongo Series, the brilliant dwarf-detective finds himself in Iran on a desperate mission. The publisher commissioned Fred to do jackets for a number of “Mongos.”
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Herbert Lieberman, 1978
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671243630
Fred’s illustration visually synthesizes the book’s plot, in a novel, based on fact, about an Israeli agent who tracks down the notorious Nazi “Angel of Death” in a Paraguay resort where he’s been hiding out.
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Lee Gladden, 1978
Rawson, Wade Publishers
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780892560714
Biblical cherubim were actually robots; UFOs are spacecraft manned by fallen Celestials from the Bermuda triangle; Adam and Eve were actually-super beings created by heavenly surgery. Star Wars fans might enjoy this space age interpretation of the bible. Others might be a bit horrified. Fred’s cover art just stands back and lets the viewer wonder about it all.
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Francis M. Nevins Jr., 1978
G. P. Putnam's Sons
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780399122033
This is a novel of political intrigue involving the corruption of a judge. The jacket displays two of Fred’s favorite visual themes, the air-brushed sky, and typography that conveys a ”voice” appropriate to the book’s message.
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Joseph Conrad, 1978
Doubleday Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385007719
Fred was excited about the opportunity to work on this cloth-bound first edition of excerpts from Joseph Conrad’s only journal. He took pleasure in seeking out just the right fabric, and keeping the typography understated.
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Barry Hannah, 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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Lionel Black, 1978
Doubleday Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780380413768
A crank phone caller manages to bring out the fire brigade, empty a theatre, and stop a train. Then things get serious. Fred seems to have incorporated the entire story into this illustration, up to and including that portentous skull.
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Jon Tuska, 1978
Doubleday Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385120937
The cover is a testament to Fred’s love of typography, and in the case of the words “in Hollywood,” a carefully hand-rendered feat of the airbrush. The letterforms are non-existent, defined only by their drop shadows.
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Francis Hitching, 1978
Anchor Press
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385121255
We have serious doubts that Fred ever read this one. The author believes that evolution is directed by some sort of cosmic force. Best to just create an airbrushed illustration of a traditional water-divining apparatus and call it a day.
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Taylor Caldwell, 1978
Doubleday Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385141710
Sometimes less is more. This novel concerns the travails of a man who, at the age of 55, made a suicide attempt, and is now in a sanitarium where he maintains complete silence. Fred chose to forego any illustration.
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Blond Anthony, 1978
Harper & Row
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780060103644
Fred’s eloquent business sign tells us in a flash that the title must refer to a respected establishment with a long history. In the novel, set in 1936, the main character has the responsibility of maintaining a successful company, but in addition, he feels obliged to manipulate the family’s exuberant private lives.
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M. E. Kerr, 1978
Harper & Row
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780060231767
A horrifying revelation presents itself to a young man when he proudly introduces his girlfriend to his estranged, aristocratic grandfather. The illustrations in Fred's cover art seem to reflect the ”gentle” part of the novel's title, while tempting the reader to investigate further.
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Alistair MacLean, 1978
Doubleday Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385128537
A fanatic terrorist kidnaps a nuclear scientist in order to find a way to trigger a series of explosions that will target California’s faultlines, hence the novel's title. Fred found an ingenious way to convincingly incorporate that title into a depiction of the disastrous results.
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Katherine Paterson, 1978
Thomas Y. Crowell Co.
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780690038378
This children's novel won the National Book Award. The main character is a mean, brash eleven-year-old girl who is bounced around from foster home to foster home. It would be entirely within her character to obscure her entire face behind a bubble when expected to have her picture taken.
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Judy Allen, 1977
E.P. Dutton
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780525341635
The label on the bottle reads “There be a witch in here. Let her out and there be a peck of trouble.” It’s probably not a surprise to learn that a curious boy can’t resist the challenge, in this acclaimed book for children. For the first edition jacket, Fred shows us the “Fire King,” unleashed.
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Herbert Ruhm, 1977
VIntage Books
First Edition Thus, Mass Market Paperback
ISBN: 9780394721569
Black Mask Magazine was a pulp monthly published from 1920 to 1951, which launched such genre superstars as Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett and Erle Stanley Gardner. For this anthology of classic short stories from its pages, Fred envisioned the prototype hero, hard-boiled as they come.
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Robert P. Holdstock, 1977
Doubleday Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385126816
Eerily relevant, this science fiction tale presents us with an Earth nearly wiped out by a pandemic, and the search by survivors for other habitable planets. On occasion, Fred chose all-type solutions, but always with a twist. Here the illustrative elements hint at vast distances and the unknown.
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A.B. Yehoshua, 1977
Doubleday Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385025904
The jacket image summarizes the mood of this book’s three short stories. In each of them, the Israeli author illuminates the stark realities of his country’s wartime sacrifices. Fred’s simple landscape tells it all.
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Anne Tyler, 1977
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394411477
Fred was Anne Tyler’s preferred book jacket designer. He enthusiastically crystalized her words in his images on many occasions. In this case it’s clear that the heroine has decided to vacate her premises, as the title suggests.
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Anne McCaffrey, 1977
Atheneum Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780689305702
This is another novel in the Pern series, and is a sequel to “Dragondrums.” This time, the theme explores the trials of a young female in the music conservatory who faces difficulties in an all-male setting.
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Botho Strauß, 1977
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
First American Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780374138523
A bookseller is despondent when his girlfriend leaves him. He decides to get her back by writing a magnificent novel. An “all-type” cover, yes, but how on earth did Fred manage to come up with that twisted title lettering?
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Tobias Wells, 1977
Doubleday Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385073318
Fred was a master at synthesizing two or more ideas in one stark image. His Christmas ornaments, each bearing that awful skull, reflect the holiday theme, while suggesting the novel’s ominous events.
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Archie Hill, 1977
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671228453
“Why me? Why us? Why my child?” This is a heart-wrenching story about a man’s marriage to a woman who is the mother of a seriously retarded child. Fred’s illustration simply depicts that man’s journey to love.
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