Displaying 37–72 of 616 book jackets
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Paul Watkins,
1990
Houghton Mifflin
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780395551363
The author recounts the story, based on actual events, of an aviator who, mired in the Foreign Legion in 1918, managed to stay alive under highly improbable circumstances. For this first edition jacket, Fred’s portrait captured the hero’s cocky optimism.
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William T. Vollman,
1990
Viking Press
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780670832392
In this speculative history, the time is the tenth century A.D. The newcomers from Iceland call their newly discovered land “Vinland the Good.” The natives are a bronze-skinned race who have not yet discovered iron and still see themselves as part of nature.
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J. R. Ackerley,
1990
Poseidon Press
First Edition,
Paperback
ISBN:
9780671707057
When Evelyn Waugh says, “radiantly delightful...a book difficult to praise temperately,” how could a publisher, or Fred, resist featuring the quote on the jacket? Fred produced a number of covers for Ackerley’s books; for this one, a playful photo offset by an appropriate decorative device.
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Deirdre Bair,
1990
Summit Books
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780671606817
De Beauvoir's extraordinary, long relationship with Jean-Paul Sartre is the focus of this book, which combines literary observations, intellectual and oral history, and feminist theory. Fred often chose a straightforward photographic portrait for biographies such as this one.
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Wayne Fields,
1990
Simon & Schuster
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780671707828
In “midstream,” at the age of forty-two, the author waded for twenty miles along a small river in northern Michigan, with his fly rod in hand. He emerged with a meditative memoir on many subjects, including families, aging, and the many things those we care about bring into our lives.
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Alice Hoffman,
1990
G. P. Putnam's Sons
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780399135354
Perhaps the houses in this Long Island suburb looked pretty much alike in the 1950s, but one, no doubt set apart by that lighted window in Fred’s first edition cover art, was entirely different. The reason? It was occupied by a shockingly progressive divorcée named Nora Silk.
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Linda Schele,
1990
William Morrow and Company
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780688074562
More often than not, publishers relied on Fred to create jackets for their works of ”serious fiction.” On occasion, as here, he was asked to deal with a work of pure scholarship, a study on newly unearthed Maya hieroglyphs. His approach was to simply get out of the way, and present the material under discussion unadorned, although not without some of his typographic wizardry.
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Claude Manceron,
1989
Simon & Schuster
Reissue,
Paperback
ISBN:
9780671680190
Fred created covers using tinted engravings for all five books in this series about the French Revolution. This is volume two, which introduces us to Louis XVI, Mirabeau, George Washington, Mozart, and an 18-year-old lieutenant name Napoleon de Buonaparte.
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Reid Mitchell,
1989
Touchstone Books
First Edition,
Paperback
ISBN:
9780671686413
Northern and Southern men went to war as Americans, each one convinced that they fought an un-American, savage enemy. Here are two of them, enhanced by Fred’s period type treatment, and signature “swag.”
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Thomas McGuane,
1989
Houghton Mifflin
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780395488874
A man inherits a ranch in Montana, finding an opportunity to rediscover his past, perhaps to amend his many failures. Fred’s deceptively simple cover illustration captures the landscape, but the shadows that fall behind the letter forms hint at the passage of time and perspective.
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Malcolm Forbes,
1989
Ballantine Books
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780671657093
This one-of-a-kind dictionary assembled anecdotes about the final exits of 175 famous people, from Attila the Hun to John Jacob Astor IV, covering over 3,000 years. Fred’s monumental image evokes the pathos, as well as the wit, contained in the book.
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Oscar Hijuelos,
1989
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780374201258
For over two decades, when publishers needed “serious fiction” jackets for books they anticipated might be big sellers, they often turned to Fred. The imagery and approach of this retro pastiche were considered highly ground-breaking for the time.
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Robert Goddard,
1989
Poseidon Press
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780671649470
The author is famous for his twists and turns. The subsequent choice of a maze for the cover art seems to be exactly the visual “mot juste.” Note his initial swash caps: Fred collected old type books and loved to resurrect long-neglected fonts.
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Peter Ackroyd,
1989
Grove Press
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780802111616
Fred delighted in allowing bits of sky to peek through unlikely places. For the jacket of this first edition, he presents an archeology dig with subtle wheelbarrows and shovels, but what they appear to have uncovered is an infinite future. And that’s exactly what the book’s about.
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Thomas Tryon,
1989
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780394560069
Is Fred’s image for this first edition’s jacket romantic? Or tragic? Well, actually, it’s night time in a summer camp. The novel tells the tale of the pulse-quickening goings-on at Moonbow Lake one summer as “the new boy” upsets the rhythms of camp life.
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Matt Kramer,
1989
William Morrow and Company
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780688087302
The subject of wine has a certain glamour. For this exploration of the subject, Fred focused on that “je ne sais quois,” finding a deco-ish image that somehow connotes sophistication, and perhaps a touch of pretention. Love that far-away look in the eye.
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David Dubal,
1989
Simon & Schuster
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780671492380
David Dubal’s handbook “... must be read by everyone who loves the instrument," said Vladimir Horowitz, and it’s hard to imagine a more impressive endorsement than that. Fred’s keyboard close-up for the jacket celebrates the instrument, pure and simple.
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Iris Murdoch,
1989
Viking Press
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780670829996
Dame Murdoch’s 24th novel plays with the concept of multiple viewpoints in an arbitrary, Roshomon-like universe. With this tinted engraving, Fred presents a lonely chair as reflected in two mirrors, with two distinctly different points-of-view.
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David Leavitt,
1989
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9781555842024
For the jacket of this first edition, Leavitt’s third novel, Fred chose to depict the most direct visual expression of affection. In his hands, a stubby pencil and crumpled piece of paper take on unexpected eloquence, and aptly summarize the thrust of this family drama.
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Lynn Garafola,
1989
Oxford University Press
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780195057010
As an avid ballet-goer, Fred was always delighted to provide jackets for any book related to the topic. This one, though, was particularly enjoyable to design. What could be more inspiring than the 1920s sophistication of Diaghilev’s art-filled world?
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J. R. Ackerley,
1989
Poseidon Press
Reissue,
Paperback
ISBN:
9780671678111
Here’s another book jacket from Fred’s J. R. Ackerley series. The author called this novel “a fairy tale for adults.” In it, he managed to combine his two obsessions, homosexuality and dogs, the latter in this case a beautiful but neglected German Shepherd named Evie.
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Barry Hannah,
1989
Houghton Mifflin
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780395488829
No one ever accused Barry Hannah of subtlety, and the same can be said of Fred’s typography for this first edition jacket. Kirkus described the autobiography as, “More booze-addled ranting and red-necked rambling from the bad old boy of southern fiction...”
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Joan Chase,
1989
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780374150037
“The evening wolves" of the outside world threaten to devour lost sheep Ruthann and Margy, sisters who, with their stepmother and younger brother, are the narrators of this novel. Fred greatly enlarged an engraving to achieve this startling effect for his first edition jacket.
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William Wharton,
1989
Avon Books
First Edition,
Paperback
ISBN:
9780380585946
Our archives include two versions of this cover, one for the hardcover first edition, the other for the paperback. Fred had great success with his work on the author’s previous “Birdy,” winning the National Book Award for that jacket.
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Margaret Atwood,
1989
Doubleday Books
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780385260077
Margaret Atwood appreciated Fred’s insistence on reading a manuscript before tackling a book jacket. After the success of “A Handmaid’s Tale,” unsurprisingly, she requested that he be selected to create the cover for her next novel’s first edition.
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Marilynne Robinson,
1989
Bantam Books
Reissue,
Paperback
ISBN:
9780553346633
The author went on to win a Pulitzer Prize, but this was her widely acclaimed first novel, printed in many editions. The novel treats the subject of housekeeping, not only in the domestic sense of cleaning, but in the larger sense of keeping a spiritual home for one's self and family
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Charles Dickinson,
1989
William Morrow and Company
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780688089245
For the novel’s first edition jacket, Fred nailed the exact visual metaphor. This is the story of two elderly widowed sisters who resolve to embark on an adventure, leaving their cozy home in Chicago for LA. One is blind, but she’s the only one who knows how to drive.
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Joseph Olshan,
1989
Doubleday Books
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780385265058
A seven-year-old boy is the only witness to the drowning of a two-year-old neighbor. He assumes guilt, even though it was an accident. Fred’s first edition jacket subtly depicts the scene without actually doing so. Note the still subtler echoes of the type at both top and bottom.
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Claude Manceron,
1989
Touchstone Books
Reissue,
Paperback
ISBN:
9780671680183
In 1988, Fred was commissioned by Simon & Schuster to design five book jackets for a series called “Chronicles of the French Revolution.” He chose to use tinted engravings throughout, as was the case for this first volume dealing with the aristocracy’s excesses and decline.
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Claude Manceron,
1989
Touchstone Books
Reissue,
Paperback
ISBN:
9780671680206
Fred enjoyed creating covers for all five books in this masterful series about the French Revolution. He chose to use airbrushed engravings from the period in each case. This one, the third volume, deals with aristocratic society on the eve of the great upheaval.
Displaying 37–72 of 616 book jackets
Paul Watkins, 1990
William T. Vollman, 1990
J. R. Ackerley, 1990
Deirdre Bair, 1990
Wayne Fields, 1990
Alice Hoffman, 1990
Linda Schele, 1990
Claude Manceron, 1989
Reid Mitchell, 1989
Thomas McGuane, 1989
Malcolm Forbes, 1989
Oscar Hijuelos, 1989
Robert Goddard, 1989
Peter Ackroyd, 1989
Thomas Tryon, 1989
Matt Kramer, 1989
David Dubal, 1989
Iris Murdoch, 1989
David Leavitt, 1989
Lynn Garafola, 1989
J. R. Ackerley, 1989
Barry Hannah, 1989
Joan Chase, 1989
William Wharton, 1989
Margaret Atwood, 1989
Marilynne Robinson, 1989
Charles Dickinson, 1989
Joseph Olshan, 1989
Claude Manceron, 1989
Claude Manceron, 1989
