Book Jackets: All (by title)
Displaying 397–432 of 616 book jackets
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Ernest Hemingway, 1987
Collier Books
Reissue, Paperback
ISBN: 9780020519102
Fred captured the mood and power of this Hemingway classic, and in others for the series. The publisher asked him to create jackets for multiple re-issues, all within the framework of a recognizable format. As always, the typography was supremely important to him as well.
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Frank Hercules, 1980
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780151699216
Set in Trinidad, the novel brutally satirizes the island's racial caste system and the entire social hierarchy the British had put in place prior to independence in the 1960s. For the first edition jacket, Fred presented a witty interpretation of the main character’s Exodus.
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Peter Carey, 1988
Harper & Row
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780060159085
Before there was a star-studded movie, there was of course a Booker Prize-winning novel. Many editions were published. For this one, Fred depicted a lonely Oscar in his final high-stakes folly—transporting a crystal palace across hostile terrain on a bet.
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Robert Goddard, 1989
Poseidon Press
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671649470
The author is famous for his twists and turns. The subsequent choice of a maze for the cover art seems to be exactly the visual “mot juste.” Note his initial swash caps: Fred collected old type books and loved to resurrect long-neglected fonts.
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Scott Russell Sanders, 1988
Touchstone Books
Reissue, Paperback
ISBN: 9780671660932
The title essay in this collection describes the author’s upbringing at an Army base/arsenal in Ohio. Fred’s visual summary presents a toy soldier stealthily taking aim at a clover flower. The very rough lettering style was a radical, but entirely apt, departure for him.
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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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Robert Marasco, 1979
Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780440070603
When an ad woman falls in love with one of her clients, a charming toy-company tycoon, little does she know what she's getting into. She then learns about his last girlfriend, who died, a supposed suicide. Fred’s illustration for the novel’s first edition jacket hints at trouble ahead.
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John Hawkes, 1979
Harper & Row
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780060118082
This novel presents Konrad Vost, the ferociously repressed father of a teenaged daughter whose “appalling womanhood” he refuses to recognize. For this first edition’s jacket, Fred chose to depict a flirtatious but surprisingly hollow Eros.
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Judith Barnard, 1986
Washington Square Press
Reissue, Paperback
ISBN: 9780671618322
In the middle of the night, a middle-aged professor of political science discovers that his wife has evaporated into thin air. One reviewer commented, “...by the time the novel ends, the reader may be wondering why she waited so long to depart.”
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Diane Johnson, 1987
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394558042
The heroine ends up alone in Iran just weeks before the uprisings against the Shah begin. What follows is the story of her life, loves, travel experiences, and third world discoveries. Fred’s softly mysterious illustration evokes the mood of the time and place.
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Paul Theroux, 1987
Pocket Books
Reissue, Paperback
ISBN: 9780671638443
For this paperback re-issue, Fred chose to marry a camera lens to a windmill, an apt combination for this satirical novel about an aging photographer’s wistful reminiscences. The strong diagonal thrust of his typography counterpoints the windmill’s structure and arm.
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David Leavitt, 1990
Viking Press
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780670821969
This jacket, for a collection of ten stories dealing with homosexuality, subtly reflects the content’s sensitivity. Fred created first edition covers for four of Leavitt’s books: “Family Dancing,” “The Lost Language of Cranes,” “Equal Affections,” and this one.
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Barbara Lazear Ascher, 1987
HarperCollins
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385193917
Time marches on, life is change, all things have their season... whatever small wisdom (or cliché) one applies to this image will aptly reflect the content of this multi-faceted book of essays. And It’s easy to see that Fred was an ardent admirer of Magritte.
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