Book Jackets: All (by title)
Displaying 325–360 of 616 book jackets
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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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Carl B. Feldbaum, 1988
HarperCollins
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780060204143
J. Robert Oppenheimer warned that ”until we have looked this tiger in the eye, we shall be in the worst of all possible dangers, which is that we may back into him.“ He referred to the threat of nuclear war, the subject of this riveting history.
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Judy Allen, 1977
E.P. Dutton
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780525341635
The label on the bottle reads “There be a witch in here. Let her out and there be a peck of trouble.” It’s probably not a surprise to learn that a curious boy can’t resist the challenge, in this acclaimed book for children. For the first edition jacket, Fred shows us the “Fire King,” unleashed.
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David Leavitt, 1986
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394538730
David Leavitt’s second major work (his collection of short stories, “Family Dancing,” also featured a jacket by Fred) tells the story of two different men from two generations coming to terms with their homosexuality. For this first edition cover, Fred asked a friend to pose.
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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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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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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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Stanley Elkin, 1991
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671673246
Fred fought hard to get the publisher to eliminate the italic repetition of the title, “The MacGuffin.” After all, the whole point of a MacGuffin is neglecting to notice what’s in plain sight. He wanted the reader to find the name of the book! Alas, the marketers won.
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Hillary Waugh, 1978
Doubleday Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385127486
Another police/crime/detective novel by this pioneering, and very prolific, mystery novelist. The challenge, in trying to present a visual interpretation of the author’s intention, was to echo the ominous without the specifics.
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Matt Kramer, 1990
HarperCollins
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780688086671
Fred designed several of these Matt Kramer “Making Sense of....” books on the ins and outs of wine. Note the subtle way in which the bottle’s curvature is described through the gentle shadows across the label.
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Matt Kramer, 1992
William Morrow and Company
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780688104368
Most of the time, Fred was hired to create covers for novels, which meant reading the manuscripts, searching for levels of meaning, and probing ways to crystallize ideas in visual form. Designing book jackets like this one was like taking a vacation.
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Matt Kramer, 1989
William Morrow and Company
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780688087302
The subject of wine has a certain glamour. For this exploration of the subject, Fred focused on that “je ne sais quois,” finding a deco-ish image that somehow connotes sophistication, and perhaps a touch of pretention. Love that far-away look in the eye.
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Oscar Hijuelos, 1989
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780374201258
For over two decades, when publishers needed “serious fiction” jackets for books they anticipated might be big sellers, they often turned to Fred. The imagery and approach of this retro pastiche were considered highly ground-breaking for the time.
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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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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.
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Allen Drury, 1979
Doubleday Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385144346
For this novel by Allen Drury, the master of political fiction, author of “Advise and Consent,” Fred’s cover representation hints at the machinations awaiting a young, newly-elected senator as he confronts Washington politics.
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Theodor Kallifatides, 1977
Doubleday Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385099165
Although masterfully done, this jacket is surprising to anyone familiar with Fred’s work. At that early stage of his book cover career, all publishers wanted “the big book look,” meaning huge type and a small descriptive illustration. Subsequently, he spent many years combating that formula, but for this one, he appears to have delivered.
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Thomas McMahon, 1978
Harper & Row
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780060129743
Gordon McKay sets out from Boston in 1855 for Kansas, where he hopes to make a fortune from honey, with his new wife, 15 swarms of bees, and an entourage that includes a group of German music box makers and two alligators. Hard to see how this might end well.
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David Noonan, 1991
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671689803
A seventeen-year-old protagonist from a small town in the 1960s comes of age by way of a summer job on the Jersey shore. For the book’s first edition, Fred captured the humor and pathos for this author’s debut novel. Don’t miss the dot on the “i.”
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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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Leonard Michaels, 1981
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780374207823
Fred’s first edition jacket projects an appropriately masculine self-confidence. The novel—notoriously misogynistic—describes one evening among seven men who gather in a house in Berkeley. They start a men’s club, the purpose of which isn’t immediately clear to any of them.
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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.
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Iris Murdoch, 1989
Viking Press
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780670829996
Dame Murdoch’s 24th novel plays with the concept of multiple viewpoints in an arbitrary, Roshomon-like universe. With this tinted engraving, Fred presents a lonely chair as reflected in two mirrors, with two distinctly different points-of-view.
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David A. Kaufelt, 1980
Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780440052449
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Josef Skvorecky, 1991
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394572208
The hero of this comic novel dozes in a rural Bohemian church when a statue of St. Joseph begins to move on its pedestal. The clergy call it a miracle, but the Communist secret police declare it a fraud, which culminates in the torture and murder of the attending priest.
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