Book Jackets: All (by title)
Displaying 361–396 of 616 book jackets
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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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Frederick Barthelme, 1983
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671472689
Here is Barthelme’s debut collection of short stories confronting the contemporary American landscape. Fred used totally minimal imagery here, punctuated only by those telltale handrails to inform us of what we’re looking at. Very reminiscent of David Hockney.
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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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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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Mary Higgins Clark, 1987
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671634667
Fred had fun creating first edition jackets for a few of these annual “Mystery Writers” anthologies. He consistently managed to find something amusing for their otherwise potentially grim cover images. This one takes its inspiration from the title story, “Murder on the Aisle.”
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J. R. Ackerley, 1986
Poseidon Press
Reissue, Paperback
ISBN: 9780671634711
The distinguished British author hardly thought of himself as a dog lover when, well into middle age, he came into possession of a German Shepherd. To his surprise, she turned out to be the love of his life. Fred’s jacket features a complimentary quote by E. M. Forster.
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J. R. Ackerley, 1988
Poseidon Press
Reissue, Paperback
ISBN: 9780671656751
Fred designed a series of jackets for books by Ackerley, whose preferred topics were homosexuality and dogs. In this one, the author limits himself to his relations with his family and his sex-life. Who could resist the presentation of a rave quote by Truman Capote?
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Molly Best Tinsley, 1991
Houghton Mifflin
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780395577851
No, not that Darwin, although the heroine is married to a philanderer name Darwin Charles. Her memories as the daughter of missionaries, and the tribal woman who cared for her, help her understand that sometimes the survival of the fittest depends on the quality of forgiveness.
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Nadine Gordimer, 1990
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780374217518
The novel’s setting is Johannesburg during apartheid. Sometimes Fred felt that a type treatment could convey a book’s mood as well as an illustration, as in this first edition jacket. As always, he designed the spine with as much care as the cover’s face. The very next year, the novel’s author, Nadine Gordimer was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, and the Swedish Academy explicitly cited My Son’s Story in their press release, calling it ”ingenious and revealing and at the same time enthralling.“
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Roald Dahl, 1980
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394510118
“The greatest fornicator of all time,” Uncle Oswald anticipates the concept of the sperm bank by some 40 years, flimflamming crowned heads, great artists, and eccentric geniuses into making "donations." Christopher Lehman-Haupt called it "a festival of bad taste.”
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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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Anne Chisholm, 1979
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394492001
The jacket blurb says, “The beautiful and rebellious English heiress who in the twenties became a symbol of flaming youth and a bright comet of literary Bohemia...” How could any designer resist the use of her glamorous photo for the book's first edition?
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Jonathan Penner, 1990
Poseidon Press
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671664237
The main character of this novel is a beekeeper with multiple familial, marital and professional problems. For this first edition book jacket, Fred’s tinted engraving reflects the doings within a hive, an apt metaphor of the title, as well as the complexities of plot.
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Lois Gould, 1988
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
First Edition, Paperback
ISBN: 9780374521080
Her 1970 debut novel “Such Good Friends” received a great deal of attention at the dawn of Women’s LIb. Years later, Fred created jackets for four paperback reissues of Lois Gould’s books, featuring this offbeat, asymmetrical, and apt format.
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William Boyd, 1988
William Morrow and Company
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780688077617
A misunderstood genius tells his own story from his birth in 1899 to his successful career as a Hollywood director. His one great ambition was to make a movie of “The Confessions” of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, whose own experiences uncannily parallel those of the novel’s hero.
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Thomas Tryon, 1989
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394560069
Is Fred’s image for this first edition’s jacket romantic? Or tragic? Well, actually, it’s night time in a summer camp. The novel tells the tale of the pulse-quickening goings-on at Moonbow Lake one summer as “the new boy” upsets the rhythms of camp life.
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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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James Wilcox, 1985
Harper & Row
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780060154417
“North Gladiola” is the street address of this novel’s small, homey diner in Tula Springs, Louisiana. A mélange of unlikely characters congregates there, including members of a local string quartet. Fred’s art for this first edition evokes the paintings of Edward Hopper.
