Book Jackets: All (by year)
Displaying 289–324 of 616 book jackets
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Stephen Harrigan, 1984
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671449452
Fred’s cover art seems to tell the whole story. The novel takes the reader deep into the mysterious passageways of a Central Texas aquifer…and of the human heart…by superimposing a geological map on the main character’s profile. It promises a thorough probe into both domains.
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Eric Rolfe Greenberg, 1983
Everest Publishing House
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780896961715
In the tradition of novels such as “Ragtime,” this is an artful blending of fact and fiction, as two brothers develop a case of hero-worship for one of baseball’s earliest super-stars. Christy Mathewson’s career is chronicled here and is echoed in Fred’s classic baseball-card inset.
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Mary Breasted, 1983
Harper & Row
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780060150921
This novel introduces us to a young reporter just hired by a very respectable newspaper (sort of the NY Times) whose primary credential is a stint at a counterculture sheet (sort of the Village Voice). Complications ensue, as you might imagine.ntary
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Nicholas Falletta, 1983
Doubleday Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385179324
Fred found a way to turn the “impossible illustrations” of the subtitle into letterforms for its title presentation, to everyone’s amazement. The author of the widely acclaimed book of paradoxes was a dear friend, and the author of Pulcinella Press’s “The Art of Fred Marcellino.”
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Valerie Worth, 1983
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780374328283
This is a tale for young readers featuring a girl who runs away from home to join a band of gypsies after her parents try to marry her off to a wealthy middle aged man. She winds up enjoying her new life and the people she meets. Fred's airbrushed image shows us her means of travel, framed by tarot card insets.
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Clare Boylan, 1983
Summit Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671467500
Who removed the holy pictures from that wall, and why? Fred’s illustration, with an economy of means, finds a way to suggest that they were no longer relevant. The novel is about two Irish girls from the 1920s, and their struggle to break away from their restrictive upbringing.
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Jim Shepard, 1983
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394532653
It’s probably not unusual for a thirteen-year-old boy to fantasize about escaping parental burdens by just flying away. In this book for young readers, the hero does just that. As usual, Fred found a way to tell the story in one image.
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Hilma Wolitzer, 1983
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780374176563
Fred used the image of rumpled bed sheets in several of his book jackets. He considered them to be part of his ‘‘visual vocabulary,” along with floating faces, fountain pens, and interrupted walls. This book's author was a good friend, and he delighted in creating most of her first edition covers.
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Russell Hoban, 1983
Summit Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671479275
This strange, metaphysical novel details the mental meanderings of a man who is hospitalized for having a “skewed hypotenuse.” In it, words have alternate meanings, and objects talk. The ancient helmet depicted might be the patient’s partner in conversation, or his own portrait.
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Janet Hobhouse, 1983
Random House
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394529400
Modern relationships in the glitter of Manhattan society are explored in this novel. Interesting to note, that in spite of “the dark” in the title, Fred chose to place his dancer in a dusty light panel, hard to see, but there.
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Robert Daley, 1983
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671470579
An ex-patriot, post WW II, executes the perfect crime by robbing a bank in Nice. He’s pursued by an idealistic cop. In Fred’s jacket image, the culprit appears to step casually out of the postcard’s picture plane. Trouble ahead.
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Robert Tracy, 1983
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671461461
Fred was a ballet-lover, especially during the Balanchine years. He was often called upon by publishers to create relevant book jackets. Here is a simple, eloquent photo of the Master and his Muse, Suzanne Farrell.
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R. R. Knudson, 1983
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780374339678
When the main character is jilted by his girlfriend, he’s inspired to take up body-building, in hopes that an improved physique might help him to win her back. As Fred’s cover illustration succinctly implies, musculature aside, in the end the female calls the shots.
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Alice Munro, 1983
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394529523
The solar system is the focus of the last conversation between the narrator and her father in the title story of this riveting collection. A recent visit to the planetarium stirs their wonder at the enormity of the universe and its meaning as death looms. The book was nominated for the 1982 Governor General's Award for English Fiction.
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Allen Wier, 1983
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671433079
This novel chronicles the memories of Jessie as she nears the end of her life. Fred’s lonely cactus flower captures the mood, as the heroine looks back on her complicated history, finding a lot to celebrate after all.
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Charles McCarry, 1983
E.P. Dutton
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780525241737
An espionage thriller, Fred’s illustration suggests the complexity in which the hero operates. It’s a world in which the communists are unquestionably the villains. Flashbacks touch on the CIA, the Nazis, the Vietnam War and more.
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Walter Walker, 1983
HarperCollins
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780060151454
There were times when Fred felt that a photograph could tell the story better than an illustration, and here was one such case. To evoke the mood for this mystery, he applied airbrushed tone over an old print. The whole effect leans heavily on that central street light.
