Book Jackets: All (by title)
Displaying 505–540 of 616 book jackets
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Laurel Goldman, 1981
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394519357
Publishers frequently asked Fred to create jackets for works of “serious fiction,” like this novel by a new author. In this book, a patient is trying to find his way, “sounding the territory,” from within a mental institution. Once again, Fred found just the right visual metaphor.
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Bonnie Zindel, 1980
Harper & Row
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780060268473
The cover image Fred created for this first edition novel for young readers conveys the young heroine's dilemma: her mother, who is dying, desperately wants her to become a ballerina. But sixteen year-old Brooke wants only to be in love.
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Lois Gould, 1988
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780374271541
Fred’s silhouette introduces us to an intriguing cast of characters: a weak boy-king, his neurotic queen, her dwarf, the king's mistress, and a fortune-hunting magician. The action is set in an imaginary European Kingdom during the Renaissance.
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Ernest Hemingway, 1987
Collier Books
Reissue, Paperback
ISBN: 9780020518709
Here another of Fred’s covers for paperback re-issues of classics by Hemingway. His format established a clearly recognizable commonality, while permitting each book to maintain its individuality with the use of tinted period photography.
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Tor Seidler, 1990
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780374272517
Tor Seidler, was a good friend of Fred’s, as well as a collaborator on two children’s books, “A Rat’s Tale,” and “Wainscott Weasel.” Between those two projects, Tor wrote his first work of adult fiction. Needless to say, Fred was delighted to create its jacket.
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Frederick Busch, 1981
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780374272463
One reviewer said this novel “...offers tragedy, comedy, insanity, infidelity and comical klutziness, but more than anything else this is a love story and an intense examination of what family means.” Fred’s moody jacket illustration echoes the isolation of the story’s coastal Maine setting.
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Sylvia Ashton Warner, 1986
Simon & Schuster
Reissue, Paperback
ISBN: 9780671617684
The author lived in New Zealand, and spent many years teaching Maori children. She found that British teaching methods were not effective, so she devised an approach widely regarded as strikingly relevant to the education of socially disadvantaged children today.
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Alexandra Marshall, 1981
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394507576
The novel’s heroine is founder and president of Phoebe's Fudge, a Connecticut company gone public, which suddenly becomes the target of a raid by a monster conglomerate. For the book’s first edition jacket, Fred chose to depict a direct visual translation of the title.
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Tor Seidler, 1982
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780374374136
This is the first edition jacket for a young readers’ novel dealing with the difficulties encountered when a birch forest is bulldozed to make way for a development. Later on, Fred and Tor collaborated on a number of successful projects.
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Robley Wilson, 1989
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671679194
Fred’s first edition jacket for this collection of short stories summarizes their common thread, what one reviewer called “the heart’s geography, a notoriously treacherous terrain.” Even here, behind his lipstick explosion, Fred couldn’t resist the hint of a Venetian sky.
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William McPherson, 1984
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671252519
Fred’s first edition cover for this acclaimed novel presents a charmingly innocent visualization of the book’s title. This is a growing-up tale set in the late 1930s, it’s hero gradually becoming aware of the Depression, developments in Europe, prejudice, sex, death and adultery.
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Walker Percy, 1987
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780374273545
Walker Percy's last novel before his death tells the story of a former psychiatrist who suspects that something is making everyone in the town crazy. Could there be something in the water supply? Fred’s tower scowls ominously over the landscape on this first edition jacket.
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Claude Manceron, 1989
Touchstone Books
Reissue, Paperback
ISBN: 9780671680206
Fred enjoyed creating covers for all five books in this masterful series about the French Revolution. He chose to use airbrushed engravings from the period in each case. This one, the third volume, deals with aristocratic society on the eve of the great upheaval.
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Malcolm Forbes, 1989
Ballantine Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671657093
This one-of-a-kind dictionary assembled anecdotes about the final exits of 175 famous people, from Attila the Hun to John Jacob Astor IV, covering over 3,000 years. Fred’s monumental image evokes the pathos, as well as the wit, contained in the book.
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