Book Jackets: All (by year)
Displaying 145–180 of 616 book jackets
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Rosamond Smith, 1987
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671644680
This novel by Joyce Carol Oates, under a pseudonym, was often described as a “taut psychological thriller.” For the first edition jacket, Fred asked a friend to pose for this Jekyll & Hyde-esque double portrait. It reflects the very divergent natures of the two title characters, both psychiatrists, as well as identical twins.
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Ernest Hemingway, 1987
Collier Books
Reissue, Paperback
ISBN: 9780020519607
This is Hemingway’s 1960 memoir of his years in Paris from 1921 to 1926. The next year he was dead, a suicide at the age of 61. Fred was happy to create formatted jackets for a re-issued series of these classics, each one featuring tinted period photos.
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Ernest Hemingway, 1987
Collier Books
Reissue, Paperback
ISBN: 9780020518808
An expatriate American helps to transport a Free French Resistance leader and his beautiful wife to Martinique in Hemingway’s 1937 novel. Fred designed Collier’s paperback series, each jacket featuring evocative tinted photographs, along with elegant retro typography.
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Ernest Hemingway, 1987
Collier Books
Reissue, Paperback
ISBN: 9780020518105
Hemingway’s lean, tough prose, and ear for the colloquial, seemed startlingly innovative in 1925 when these short stories were originally published. This is another in the series of book jackets Fred created for an extensive paperback re-issue in 1988.
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Barbara Seaman, 1987
William Morrow and Company
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780688050108
One reviewer said, “‘Valley of the Dolls’ is amazingly entertaining, but unless you've read ‘Lovely Me,’ you don't know Jacqueline Susann.” Dirt is dished, her countless affairs with the famous described (including one with Ethel Merman!), along with drug binges, and lots more.
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Ernest Hemingway, 1987
Collier Books
Reissue, Paperback
ISBN: 9780020518600
At the age of twenty-two, Ernest Hemingway wrote his first short story. Seventeen years and forty-eight titles later, he was the undisputed master of the short-story form and the leading American man of letters. This is another of Fred’s jackets for the Collier series of paperback re-issues.
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Ian Frazier, 1987
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780374223106
This is a charming collection of five essays from the New Yorker which appeared from 1978 to 1986. Fred chose to encapsulate each one with a small illustration. Interesting to note that the backgrounds form a sort of rainbow, adding up to one of his signature Venetian skies.
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Boris Schwarz, 1987
Touchstone Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671604615
For this collection of short biographies of the world's greatest violinists, Fred created a powerful illustration in his favorite medium of the time, airbrush. The instrument bursts out of its designated location, defying the viewer to question its importance.
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Ernest Hemingway, 1987
Collier Books
Reissue, Paperback
ISBN: 9780020519300
Here is another of Fred’s covers for paperback re-issue of classics by Hemingway. His format established a clearly recognizable commonality, while permitting each book to maintain its individuality with the use of tinted period photography.
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Carolyn See, 1987
McGraw-Hill
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780070561205
The heroine of this novel moves to sunny California. She finds love and wealth, but the Great Threat looms. How do you visually marry two of this novel’s main theme’s, celebration and nuclear holocaust? Fred found a way.
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Alice Hoffman, 1987
G. P. Putnam's Sons
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780399132827
The book’s title refers to an annual celebration on Martha’s Vineyard, in which hundreds of Japanese lanterns are set to glowing in a park. It provides the setting for this novel, which involves the mundane details of life, while managing to elevate them with mythic forcefulness, much like Fred’s illustration.
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Ernest Hemingway, 1987
Collier Books
Reissue, Paperback
ISBN: 9780020518709
Here another of Fred’s covers for paperback re-issues of classics by Hemingway. His format established a clearly recognizable commonality, while permitting each book to maintain its individuality with the use of tinted period photography.
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Ernest Hemingway, 1987
Collier Books
Reissue, Paperback
ISBN: 9780020518501
In 1987, Fred was commissioned by Collier to create jackets for four paperback re-issues of famous and classic Hemingway novels. A requirement was that a format be designed to establish commonality. Fred chose to incorporate tinted period photography.
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Ernest Hemingway, 1987
Collier Books
First Edition, Paperback
ISBN: 9780020519003
In 1987, Fred was commissioned to create covers for a series of Hemingway paperback reissues. There was to be a recognizable visual format, yet each book was to be presented as reflective of that novel’s individual character. He designed a format, but chose to use photographic imagery as the basis for each illustration.
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Art Bourgeau, 1986
Crown Publishing Group
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780517556023
The subtitle says it all: “Over 2,500 mysteries, detective stories, and suspense thrillers described and rated for aficionados.” The book’s rating system consisted of one to five daggers. Fred chose to depict an apt (if creepy) devotee of the genre for the first edition jacket.
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John Houseman, 1986
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671622336
John Houseman, the producer, director, and Academy Award-winning actor, here presented a collection of essays, book reviews, forwards, and newspaper columns, among other previously published works. Fred’s chose a straightforward design for the book’s first edition jacket.
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William Wright, 1986
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671526870
As was often the case when Fred was commissioned to create a cover for a biography, he felt that a straightforward photograph couldn’t be improved upon. However, he couldn’t resist the placement of this photo into a nostalgic airbrushed still life, with his signature type treatment.
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Eleanor Clark, 1986
G. P. Putnam's Sons
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780399131226
Camping out isn’t always fun, as is made clear in this harrowing account of two women in an isolated tent by a Vermont lake. Fred’s beautiful artwork features some lovely irises, but one of them seems to be in trouble.
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Gabrielle Burton, 1986
Charles Scribner's Sons
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780684185941
How better to depict the plight of the traditional housewife, trapped in a very tiny doll house? Fred enlisted his wife to pose for this image, causing a bout of back pain that lasted for weeks. But the image, once again, nailed the author’s intention in a concisely wrought illustration.
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Valerie Worth, 1986
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780374327835
Young readers enthusiastically embraced this Gothic novel immediately upon its publication. The spooky landscape, the inevitable mansion, and the ghostly presence that wandered about the premises, were all embodied in Fred's jacket art. It wasn't unusual for Fred to allow a disembodied face to hover in the sky.
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Ellen Currie, 1986
Summit Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671554323
As the jacket illustration suggests, a lot of people are concerned about the disposition of “Dorinda’s baby.” Fred found a way to incorporate the publisher’s desire for reviewers’ quotes without destroying his concept.
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Alexandra Towle, 1986
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671638597
As the cover type announces, this is a compilation of prose, poetry and photography dedicated to the celebration of fatherhood. Fred loved to use silhouettes, when appropriate, to convey a sense of the historical past. In this case, his images also suggest the passage of time.
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Elly Welt, 1986
Viking Press
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780670809257
In this novel, a Jewish boy is hidden from the Nazis in a laboratory dedicated to the genetic study of flies. Fred used this appropriate imagery to symbolize the look and feel of the decay which prevailed during that period in Berlin.
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Gregory McDonald, 1986
Warner Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780892962464
Here’s an anthology of short mysteries that answers the question “How can crime be funny?” Fred’s clown dies laughing on this jacket, as well as on an audio book of four cassettes. Note the knife’s audacious overhang onto the border.
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Stanley Shapiro, 1986
Random House
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394550312
The protagonist is still in mourning for his older brother who was killed in the Vietnam War. By way of a time machine, he travels back to Nov. 22, 1963 in an attempt to prevent the day's tragedy. But would that, as the hero believes, have prevented the war, and thus his personal loss?
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Willis Johnson, 1986
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780151356911
This is a series of short tales, all revolving around a small community of Russians living in a Maine town. The title story concerns a girl who chooses to fake an accent, and to dress in costumes that seem to be consistent with it.
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Marcel Allain, 1986
William Morrow and Company
Reissue, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780688043605
Fantomas was a classic French anti-hero and arch-criminal invented in the early years of the twentieth century by co-authors, who were widely considered to be pulp fiction hacks. But they were revered by many.
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Clive Barker, 1986
Poseidon Press
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671626860
For this first edition of a horror classic, Fred took his inspiration from one of the book’s five stories, “The Body Politic.” A man’s hands have a night-time life of their own. As envisioned in this illustration, they also have a haunting beauty.
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Patty Dann, 1986
Houghton Mifflin
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780899194714
For centuries, men have been fantasizing about mermaids, but what do mermaids fantasize about? Fred chose in this instance to play with the title rather than the plot. The book became a major Hollywood film starring Cher and Winona Ryder, by the way.
