Book Jackets: All (by year)
Displaying 253–288 of 616 book jackets
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Milan Kundera, 1984
Harper & Row
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780060152581
This was the original cover of this famous book. For the paperback edition, Fred succumbed to the publisher’s desire for re-worked art. It was one of the only times he conceded that his second solution was better than his first.
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Todd McEwen, 1984
Harper & Row
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780060151645
Fred was always in search of the unexpected visual metaphor, as you can see in this jacket illustration. The book’s main character, who’s been for years carting around an old violin (which he can’t play), loses his sanity at the story’s very beginning.
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Thomas Pynchon, 1984
Little, Brown and Company
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780316724425
The “big book look,” so prevalent in book jacket design, dictated that a famous author’s name be presented in huge type. Fred found a way to conform, without sacrificing elegance. And found an interesting way to visualize an author’s earliest struggles.
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Rudolph Wurlitzer, 1984
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394536101
Fred’s ultimate career fantasy: Lincoln Center commissions him to do the sets for a new Met production of an old Italian opera. He had done stage design for various plays in his youth, so knew well what a “slow fade” looked like from behind the scenes.
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Peter Schneider, 1984
Pantheon Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394529288
As Steven Heller has written, Fred was a “master of sky.” Here, a bit of it appears framed by the Berlin Wall, the subject of this book, infusing both sky and wall with subtle eloquence. A later edition depicts, guess what? Yep, a man jumping off a wall.
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Mark Harris, 1984
McGraw-Hill
First Edition, Paperback
ISBN: 9780070268456
The New York Times called this novel “extravagantly funny,” and one might say the same for Fred’s jacket illustration. The entire book is a series of letters to and from an impotent writing professor. Not much to add to that…
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Hilma Wolitzer, 1984
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780374384562
On the rare occasions where it was possible, Fred liked to incorporate a book’s title within an image, as is the case here. This novel for young readers was about a 13-year-old boy who goes to live with his grandfather in Florida.
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Graham Swift, 1984
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671546137
As a man teaches his son to swim, his wife ruminates about their unhappy marriage and dysfunctional family. Fred’s oblique visual metaphor sets the tone for this series of short stories from England. Note the subtle water ripples as the toy boat goes under.
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Iain Banks, 1984
Houghton Mifflin
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780395362969
In this jarring novel, the main character finds an old clock in a garbage dump, into which he places a wasp. Behind each numeral there’s a trap leading to a means of ritual death. Fred’s choice of a harsh, disjointed graphic serves as a foil for the insect’s plight.
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Doris Lessing, 1984
Simon & Schuster
Reissue, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671287702
When the author won the Nobel Prize, the Swedish Academy said: “The burgeoning feminist movement saw it as a pioneering work....” For the jacket of this classic’s reissue, Fred chose a simple stack of the author’s famous color-coded notebooks.
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Michael J. Arlen, 1984
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780374254094
This semi-autobiographic novel by a journalist explores the Oedipal conflicts that abound among sons of famous men, as the hero visits his father on a ranch. Fred’s cover for this first edition slyly hints at the elimination of one of them.
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Graham Swift, 1984
Poseidon Press
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671498634
Although Fred loved to provide clients with his illustrations, if he could find just the right photograph, he extracted his own ego from his jacket submissions. Here, this tinted photo of a river’s sluice in The Fens of East Anglia was too perfect to resist.
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Jan Morris, 1984
Oxford University Press
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780195034523
This captivating book of essays, mostly on the author’s observations in cities around the world, has become a classic. Fred’s meandering road suggests that unexpected revelations will be found over every hill, and at every twist and turn, by the observant chronicler.
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Philip Kimball, 1984
E.P. Dutton
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780525242284
“Shooting snooker and pissing in the shuffleboard machine. Seemed to be ’bout the only things to do in Buffalo Gap.” So begins this acclaimed first novel about farm life on the Great Plains of South Dakota. For the first edition, Fred painted this unlikely interior.
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Frederick Barthelme, 1984
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671474416
It’s a world in which human values are overwhelmed by a profusion of sitcoms and commercials. For the first edition of Barthelme’s premier novel, Fred depicted a vapid, Hopper-esque interior, in which the real sky is reflected on an outward-facing TV screen.
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Lee Grove, 1984
Faber & Faber
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780571125265
With a flamboyant swirl, an unseen but no doubt glamorous young lady performs her “last dance.” When the value of book-jacket-as-poster is taken into consideration, this great swath of color was surely an attention grabber on the store shelves.
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Doris Lessing, 1984
Simon & Schuster
Reissue, Paperback
ISBN: 9780671541903
“Women are always serious about love, but Doris Lessing is more than serious: she is downright glum...” wrote one reviewer about her collection of nineteen short stories. Fred captured that mood in his image for the book’s paperback first edition.
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Nora Johnson, 1984
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671473020
Twin sisters are reunited at their childhood home when told by their father that he intends to divorce their mother. One has evolved into a straight-arrow, the other a bohemian sort. Fred’s first edition jacket presents a less complicated time in their lives.
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William McPherson, 1984
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671252519
Fred’s first edition cover for this acclaimed novel presents a charmingly innocent visualization of the book’s title. This is a growing-up tale set in the late 1930s, it’s hero gradually becoming aware of the Depression, developments in Europe, prejudice, sex, death and adultery.
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Frederick Busch, 1984
David R. Godine Publisher
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780879234935
'Invisible mending'' is the author and narrator’s metaphor for what love can do when applied to the world's sorrows in this half-comic, half-serious meditation on Jewish identity and consciousness. Fred’s first edition jacket illustration can be said to layer metaphor on metaphor.
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George Leonard, 1984
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671496760
When a loner, trying to prevent the slaughter of birds in a wildlife sanctuary, kills a man, he experiences a pleasure in killing that drives him to retreat beneath the ice-covered waters of Long Island Sound. Fred’s first edition jacket image finds him there.
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Joyce Thompson, 1984
Doubleday Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385188647
The Place is a colony for the deformed offspring of nuclear accident victims. But it flourishes peacefully. The events in this book are hair-raising, but Fred chose to depict a moment of calm before the turmoil set in.
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A.B. Yehoshua, 1984
Doubleday Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385155748
Yes, the book is about a massively dysfunctional family, and a “late divorce,” but it’s symbolically about “the great debate between Israel and the Golah (exile),” a topic of obsessive concern to the author. The cover illustration synthesizes the theme without belaboring the larger issues.
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Richard Sennett, 1984
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394513003
A cellist, who uses his music to keep emotions at bay, finds the fulness of spiritual reality after a tragic accident. Fred often chose to depict evocative shadows, rather than actuality, to capture a mood.
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Heberto Padilla, 1984
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780374169824
On occasion, Fred opted to “let the type do the talking”. He loved typography, and never allowed any art director to get involved, except to say “I love it.” This book is an autobiographical account of the fate of intellectuals and artists during the Cuban revolution, which, in his view, didn’t seem to require any illustrative enhancements.
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Stratis Haviaras, 1984
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671492915
How children are affected by war, how they survive—if they survive—and how their childhood is stolen from them, are the themes of this novel. This soulful portrait of the book’s 12-year-old narrator says it all.
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Candice Bergen, 1984
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671252946
Sometimes Fred concluded, especially when commissioned to create a jacket for a biography, that the most appropriate solution was to just present an exquisite photograph. But his creative juices couldn’t resist the opportunity to enhance it with some elegant typography.
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Heilman, Samuel Heilman, 1984
Summit Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671524890
Book-jacket-wise, Fred felt that sometimes less was more. This author, a professor of sociology, firmly planted in the world of science, took a sabbatical to Jerusalem in an attempt to gain a greater understanding of his roots. In doing so, he found a link to the historical past that surprised and deeply moved him.
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Dorothy Dunnett, 1984
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394523774
Fred was invited to create jackets for this series, “The Dolly Mysteries.” Here he juxtaposes his rendered tropical flowers with a silhouetted portrait of the heroine as she journeys to the Caribbean in a luxury yacht.
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Susan Mary Alsop, 1984
Harper & Row
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780060152802
The 1815 Congress of Vienna set the stage for every sort of domestic and diplomatic intrigue imaginable. For the jacket of this historical exploration, Fred created a suitable silhouette, reflective of the period and style.
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Michel Tournier, 1984
Doubleday Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385153546
The stories presented in this book deal with “the sordid supernatural” (the author's own description of his work). In one of them, an erotomaniac has escaped from a mental asylum, where he’d been confined after trying to retrieve a garter belt from a woman in the metro. Can that be the object that Fred chose to place on the bookshelf?
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Carolly Erickson, 1984
Summit Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671503925
What better way to present a book about Henry the Eighth than to simply reproduce the renowned portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger? Fred chose to mute the painting’s colors, perhaps to allow the title to take center stage, with his exquisite typographic treatment.
