Book Jackets: All (by year)
Displaying 217–252 of 616 book jackets
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Tobias Wolff, 1985
Houghton Mifflin
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780395354162
This is the first edition hardcover jacket for a widely reprinted collection of short stories.. Frustrated, lonely and divorced from their youthful expectations, Tobias Wolff's disaffected heroes drift through the present by telling assorted stories and lies.
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Robert Robin, 1985
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671547691
Fred’s first edition jacket succinctly reflects the main character’s deep conflict, as he learns of the death of his former college roommate, and lover. Now fifteen years into a “perfect marriage,” he finds himself in crisis. That cropped coffee cup provides an unexpected focal point.
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Gloria Norris, 1985
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394545028
The New York Times reviewer said of the title character, he is “... a ladies' man who reminds women of Jesus Christ, David Merrick, Diaghilev, and Laurence Olivier.” For this first edition jacket, Fred presented us with an elusive romantic hero, there, but not quite.
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Sue Ellen Bridgers, 1985
HarperCollins
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780060153854
Sara Will lives in an isolated South Carolina home. She grieves over the death of her favorite younger sister and bemoans the fact that her grave rests on an inaccessible tiny island in a manmade lake. Fred’s first edition jacket pursues the thought.
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Graham Swift, 1985
Washington Square Press
Reissue, Paperback
ISBN: 9780671546120
Prentis, the narrator of this nightmarish novel, catalogs "dead crimes" for a branch of the London Police Department, and suspects that he is going crazy. Fred’s startling image hints at the subversive machinations involved in uncovering a legacy of blackmail and betrayal.
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Michael Ende, 1985
Doubleday Books
Reissue, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385190930
Once again, Fred pays homage to Magritte, with a little de Chirico thrown in, for this first edition jacket. Momo is an orphan who lives under the stage of an old Italian amphitheater, happily, until the arrival of the “gray men” whose mission is to steal time from the town’s good citizens.
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Jay Neugeboren, 1985
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671543723
The novel’s main character has assumed a new identity to escape from his past as the nephew of a well-known Jewish gangster from Brooklyn in the 1950s. He is haunted by memories of his first family, wife, and daughter. For the first edition jacket, Fred’s still life synthesizes the hero’s two lives.
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Ronald J. Glasser, 1985
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671507671
This novel is about two soldiers who, in spite of everything, become fast friends. The author, a physician, was drafted into the army at the height of the Vietnam War. Fred’s straightforward airbrushed image reflects the work’s simple eloquence.
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Walter Walker, 1985
Harper & Row
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780060154080
Fred created several jackets for books by Walter Walker, with the visual theme of evocative tinted photography. For this first edition, we might surmise that the action takes place in San Francisco. Walker is a full-time trial attorney there, with a unique perspective on crime.
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Maureen Freely, 1985
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671506148
The title character in this novel is a wild, drunken American professor, the life of the expatriate/campus party, at a prestigious Turkish university in the 1950s. His madcap capers end in a serious reality check, as Fred’s drowning tail-fins suggest.
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Sergei Dovlatov, 1985
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394535227
For the first edition jacket of this satirical novelization subtitled “A Prison Camp Guard’s Story,” Fred once again found a way to put the typography to work. It’s “the big book look,” but the ominous and gigantic letter forms serve as a barrier against an arid world.
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Josef Skvorecky, 1985
Pocket Books
First Edition, Paperback
ISBN: 9780671556822
For the paperback edition of this acclaimed comic novel, Fred allowed the title to spill out of the author’s typewriter in an unexpected fashion, while highlighting an endorsement by the famed Milan Kundera.
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Betty Rollin, 1985
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671525972
Betty Rollin was a well known TV journalist before she changed focus to writing. “First You Cry,” an account of her 1975 cancer diagnosis, was a best-seller, followed by “Last Wish,” a book about the issue of assisted suicide for the terminally ill. In confronting the task of creating a cover for the latter book, Fred chose to focus on the universal symbol of comfort for illness and death, with his simple and eloquent painting.
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Jean Gould, 1985
HarperCollins
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780688049706
This novel covers a lot of territory, some of it quite disjointed. Fred seems to have focused on the title as a jumping-off point for this jacket, rather than exploring the actual content. He created a heartfelt depiction of nostalgia.
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Josef Skvorecky, 1984
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394505008
Writers are said to have been described by Joseph Stalin as “engineers of human souls.” In this jacket for a comic novel by a Czech emigré, Fred presented the book’s title in an unexpected but entirely appropriate way.
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Michael Martone, 1984
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394530215
What do James Dean, Mark Spitz, Ezra Pound, John Dillinger, and Colonel Sanders have in common? Indiana, it seems. For this collection of short monologues, Fred fashioned a Monty Python-esque montage. The shadows hold the elements together.
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Norman Lewis, 1984
Pantheon Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394535647
Ronald Kemp, a British journalist, finds himself caught in the middle of a failed plot to assassinate the Libyan dictator, as well as the Libyans’ successful murder of the president of Egypt. Not a very comfortable position, it would appear.
