Book Jackets: All (by title)
Displaying 469–504 of 616 book jackets
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Lois Gould, 1988
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Reissue, Paperback
ISBN: 9780374520854
This is a bizarre fantasy about a mild woman transformed by rage. A former model flees to a remote island after she is raped and embarks on a strange new life. Fred adhered to this asymmetrical format for several paperback reissues of Lois Gould’s novels
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Anne Tyler, 1975
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394498485
When this novel was published in its first edition, Fred had only recently begun his career as a book jacket designer. As always, he saw himself as being in service to the author’s intentions. Here, the main character searches for his long-missing cello-playing brother.
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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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Marianne Wiggins, 1983
Random House
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394532554
“I avoid simply depicting a specific scene. And I don’t believe in just illustrating the title—why say it twice?” In this jacket illustration, Fred managed to avoid breaking his own rule by a clever maneuver. No checks, but we get the whole story.
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Alice Hoffman, 1990
G. P. Putnam's Sons
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780399135354
Perhaps the houses in this Long Island suburb looked pretty much alike in the 1950s, but one, no doubt set apart by that lighted window in Fred’s first edition cover art, was entirely different. The reason? It was occupied by a shockingly progressive divorcée named Nora Silk.
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George C. Chesbro, 1977
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671226961
For the first edition jacket of this critically acclaimed novel, Fred presented its hero, former circus headliner, black belt karate expert, renowned criminologist and private detective extraordinaire, who just happens to be a dwarf.
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Ernest Hemingway, 1987
Collier Books
Reissue, Paperback
ISBN: 9780020518600
At the age of twenty-two, Ernest Hemingway wrote his first short story. Seventeen years and forty-eight titles later, he was the undisputed master of the short-story form and the leading American man of letters. This is another of Fred’s jackets for the Collier series of paperback re-issues.
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Graham Swift, 1985
Washington Square Press
Reissue, Paperback
ISBN: 9780671546120
Prentis, the narrator of this nightmarish novel, catalogs "dead crimes" for a branch of the London Police Department, and suspects that he is going crazy. Fred’s startling image hints at the subversive machinations involved in uncovering a legacy of blackmail and betrayal.
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Marcel Allain, 1987
William Morrow and Company
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 780688072650
Here he is again! It’s Fantomas, the famous French arch-villain from a series of novels written between 1911 and 1914. A snake is featured in the story, but not from under the anti-hero’s cloak. Or is that a tail? This was Fred’s little joke.
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Hilma Wolitzer, 1988
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780374264222
As their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary approached, Paulie resolved to leave Howard and finally take control of her life. But then Howard suffered a heart attack. Fred’s image of a tucked-away wedding-cake couple visually summarizes the complications.
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Deirdre Bair, 1990
Summit Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671606817
De Beauvoir's extraordinary, long relationship with Jean-Paul Sartre is the focus of this book, which combines literary observations, intellectual and oral history, and feminist theory. Fred often chose a straightforward photographic portrait for biographies such as this one.
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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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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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Lisa St. Aubin de Terán, 1981
Harper & Row
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780060152390
Three Venezuelan exiles move restlessly back and forth on the local train between Paris and Milan, along with a 17-year-old English girl who has married one of them. Fred’s ultra-diagonal jacket illustration captures the retro romance many of us have about European railways.
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H. B. Gilmour, 1983
Newmarket Press
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780937858134
When their divorced mother dies, two children are forced to leave their Vermont country home to live with their father, a freewheeling high-fashion photographer who deserted the family long ago. For the novel’s first edition jacket, Fred’s found the visual translation.
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Robert Robin, 1985
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671547691
Fred’s first edition jacket succinctly reflects the main character’s deep conflict, as he learns of the death of his former college roommate, and lover. Now fifteen years into a “perfect marriage,” he finds himself in crisis. That cropped coffee cup provides an unexpected focal point.
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Peter Conrad , 1987
Poseidon Press
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671643539
As a devoted opera buff, Fred particularly enjoyed designing this first edition jacket. The New York Times reviewer declared that “This is an astonishing book. I know of no other opera survey tossed off with such exuberant verbal virtuosity.”
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Elie Wiesel, 1982
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Paperback
ISBN: 9780671441715
One reviewer said this book is “...a loving, personal affirmation of Judaism, written with words and with silence, capturing the essence of Hasidism through tales, legends, parables, sayings, and deeply personal reflections.” And it's another of Fred’s eloquent first edition jackets. Fred won the 1983 American Book Award for Jacket Design for Souls on Fire, receiving a Louise Nevelson Sculpture prize.
