Book Jackets: All (by year)
Displaying 109–144 of 616 book jackets
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Nicholas Falletta, 1988
D. C. Heath and Company
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 0000000000000
An unexpected twist here for another book in the Language Arts series. Fred loved the late-Renaissance paintings of Arcimboldo, who achieved fame by concocting human faces out of fruits and vegetables. Why not books, pens, typewriters and paper clips? Young readers would likely enjoy the frivolity.
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Nicholas Falletta, 1988
D. C. Heath and Company
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 0000000000000
The “Language Arts” series was a delightful project for Fred. The challenge was to present the image of books in a context that would appeal to young readers. Here we see them arranged into a cityscape. As was often the case during these years, the airbrush played a big role.
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Nicholas Falletta, 1988
D. C. Heath and Company
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 0000000000000
Reading certainly can be said to “open doors.” Fred’s illustration for this edition of the “Language Arts” series suggests that great adventures await within books. His hope was that in some small way, his cover art for all of these texts would convey a sense of fun to youngsters.
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Gerald Clarke, 1988
Hamish Hamilton Limited
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671228118
When commissioned to create a cover for a well-known person’s biography, most often the best solution is to find a compelling photo. But Fred loved typography, and managed to uplift any image with its sensitive use.
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Mark Twain, 1988
Doubleday Books
Reissue, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385232449
The editor reinserted some elements of Twain’s original novel, to the chagrin of many purists. Fred’s cover plays it straight, using one of his favorite devices, the ghosted and oversized secondary portrait looming in the sky.
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Ernest Hemingway, 1988
Collier Books
First Edition, Paperback
ISBN: 9780020518907
Fred had a commission to create jackets for a number of Hemingway reissues. As a series, it was appropriate that each one have a common executional theme. He chose this layout format, with Deco-ish typography for each, incorporating a distinctive tinted photo.
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Tom Wolfe, 1987
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9785551180005
“So the critical moment occurred when I came up with the image of two cities, the city of privilege and the poorer city, the real city, and an image of that city reflected.” – Fred Marcellino, “Covering Tom Wolfe,” How Magazine, September/October 1988. Bonfire of the Vanities won the Ambassador Book Award for Fiction in 1988. In 1990, it was adapted into a film directed by Brian De Palma and starring Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, and Kim Cattrall.
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Primo Levi, 1987
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671632809
Coming up with jacket imagery for books dealing with the Holocaust was always a special challenge. Avoiding the trite, grotesque, or maudlin could be a delicate exercise. Here Fred seems to have struck exactly the right tone.
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Ethan Mordden, 1987
Oxford University Press
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780195044256
Amazing how archaic the sight of a phonograph record appears now. This one makes a spectacular grand entrance as the curtain parts. In his book jackets for fiction, Fred had the author’s subtle vision to portray, but not for a compendium such as this one.
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Thomas McMahon, 1987
Viking Press
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780670812288
Fred tapped into his collagist instincts to portray the novel’s saga of telephonic connectivity in the time of Alexander Graham Bell and Nikola Tesla. Note the little hands and receivers he invented for the engraved portraits of these historic characters.
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Barbara Lazear Ascher, 1987
HarperCollins
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385193917
Time marches on, life is change, all things have their season... whatever small wisdom (or cliché) one applies to this image will aptly reflect the content of this multi-faceted book of essays. And It’s easy to see that Fred was an ardent admirer of Magritte.
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William T. Vollman, 1987
Atheneum Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780233980225
“The electric and insect wars unfold through comic episodes depicting the confrontations of reactionaries, revolutionaries and bugs,” wrote the NY Times about this author’s debut novel. For its first edition, Fred visually captured the whole, complicated epic.
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Paul Theroux, 1987
Pocket Books
Reissue, Paperback
ISBN: 9780671638443
For this paperback re-issue, Fred chose to marry a camera lens to a windmill, an apt combination for this satirical novel about an aging photographer’s wistful reminiscences. The strong diagonal thrust of his typography counterpoints the windmill’s structure and arm.
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Marcel Allain, 1987
William Morrow and Company
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 780688072650
Here he is again! It’s Fantomas, the famous French arch-villain from a series of novels written between 1911 and 1914. A snake is featured in the story, but not from under the anti-hero’s cloak. Or is that a tail? This was Fred’s little joke.
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Peter Conrad , 1987
Poseidon Press
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671643539
As a devoted opera buff, Fred particularly enjoyed designing this first edition jacket. The New York Times reviewer declared that “This is an astonishing book. I know of no other opera survey tossed off with such exuberant verbal virtuosity.”
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Josef Skvorecky, 1987
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394546810
This is an anecdotal novel, its title referring not only to Anton Dvorak's love for the beautiful elder sister of the woman he married, but also to his more fruitful love for the folk tunes, spirituals and jazz that captured him on his visit to America in the 1890's.
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Margaret Drabble, 1987
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 0000000000000
It’s hard to imagine a more dramatic “all-type” cover than this one, for the American first edition of Margaret Drabble’s masterful chronicle. The novel explores the lives of three Englishwomen who reunite twenty-five years after their days at Cambridge.
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Allen Appel, 1987
Dell Publishing
First Edition, Paperback
ISBN: 9780440591160
The main character of this novel is tossed back and forth between present-day New York City and the Russian Revolution of 1917. Fred masterfully juxtaposes the image of Tsar Nicholas and the royal family with one of his signature stark interiors.
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Mary Higgins Clark, 1987
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671634667
Fred had fun creating first edition jackets for a few of these annual “Mystery Writers” anthologies. He consistently managed to find something amusing for their otherwise potentially grim cover images. This one takes its inspiration from the title story, “Murder on the Aisle.”
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Walker Percy, 1987
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780374273545
Walker Percy's last novel before his death tells the story of a former psychiatrist who suspects that something is making everyone in the town crazy. Could there be something in the water supply? Fred’s tower scowls ominously over the landscape on this first edition jacket.
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Peter Gethers, 1987
Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385295239
Growing up in the 1950s, the hero believed he was destined for baseball greatness. During the next two decades as a much-traded .260 hitter, he came to realize that he was not the best. Once again Fred nailed the thought, with his image of that unreachable moon/baseball.
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Jonathan Raban, 1987
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671454807
This travelogue describes the author’s 1982 single-handed voyage around Britain in an old restored ketch. He sailed with a chart, a hand-bearing compass, and by the look of the coastline. His account offers many digressions about life in England at that time…
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Diane Johnson, 1987
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394558042
The heroine ends up alone in Iran just weeks before the uprisings against the Shah begin. What follows is the story of her life, loves, travel experiences, and third world discoveries. Fred’s softly mysterious illustration evokes the mood of the time and place.
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Ernest Hemingway, 1987
Collier Books
Reissue, Paperback
ISBN: 9780020519102
Fred captured the mood and power of this Hemingway classic, and in others for the series. The publisher asked him to create jackets for multiple re-issues, all within the framework of a recognizable format. As always, the typography was supremely important to him as well.
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Michel Tournier, 1987
Doubleday Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385237598
A man named Idris lives in a culture which regards “portrayers” (painters and sculptors) as the purest of evil doers. He finds a jewel, a drop of pure gold, in the sand. He regards it as an antidote to imagery. Fred’s first edition jacket presents the premise with simple eloquence.
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Raleigh Trevelyan, 1987
Touchstone Books
Reprint, Paperback
ISBN: 9780671669775
In her New York Times review of this exhaustive examination of the British Raj, Jan Morris stated, “It may well be one of the last in the long line of Anglo-Indian memoirs, and by a happy chance it is certainly one of the best.” Fred chose this tinted photo as a visual summary.
