Book Jackets: All (by title)
Displaying 541–576 of 616 book jackets
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Allen Appel, 1987
Dell Publishing
First Edition, Paperback
ISBN: 9780440591160
The main character of this novel is tossed back and forth between present-day New York City and the Russian Revolution of 1917. Fred masterfully juxtaposes the image of Tsar Nicholas and the royal family with one of his signature stark interiors.
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Deborah Jowitt, 1988
William Morrow and Company
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780688049102
Fred was an avid ballet fan. He was often asked to design jackets for books on the topic, like this history from the Romantic era to the present time. He chose to juxtapose a famous image of Marie Taglioni with another famous image of Martha Graham.
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Stanley Shapiro, 1986
Random House
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394550312
The protagonist is still in mourning for his older brother who was killed in the Vietnam War. By way of a time machine, he travels back to Nov. 22, 1963 in an attempt to prevent the day's tragedy. But would that, as the hero believes, have prevented the war, and thus his personal loss?
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Ernest Hemingway, 1987
Collier Books
Reissue, Paperback
ISBN: 9780020518808
An expatriate American helps to transport a Free French Resistance leader and his beautiful wife to Martinique in Hemingway’s 1937 novel. Fred designed Collier’s paperback series, each jacket featuring evocative tinted photographs, along with elegant retro typography.
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Hilma Wolitzer, 1978
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780374376253
Fred enjoyed working with the author of this book for young readers. In the mid-70s, his career as a book jacket designer/illustrator was just taking off. He created covers for this poignant novel, and a number of other Hilma Wolitzer hardcover first editions.
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Tabitha King, 1985
Macmillan Publishers
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780025631403
You can probably guess that this is a horror story. For one thing, the author is the wife of Stephen King. For another, the title sounds pretty ominous. But Fred’s isolated rural cabin with footprints in the snow clearly states that this book is not for the faint of heart.
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Elizabeth Gilmore Holt, 1979
Anchor Press
First Edition, Paperback
ISBN: 9780385135115
The status of the artist was forever changed by the French Revolution, as is revealed in this collection of documents published between 1785 and 1848. Painters and sculptors were no longer subject to the dictates of patronage. Fred’s illustration expresses this breath of fresh air.
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Alison Lurie, 1988
Little, Brown and Company
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780316537209
This novel explores the twists and turns as a biographer probes into the life of her subject, a painter. The truth (or truths) tend to belie the writer’s feminist preconceptions. Fred found a way to visually summarize the premise for this first edition's jacket.
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Blanche D’Alpuget, 1981
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671492410
An Australian photojournalist leaves her family to cover the story of Vietnamese boat people. In his eloquent cover illustration for the book’s first edition jacket, Fred juxtaposed the serenity of the setting with the refugees’ desperate plight.
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Laura Furman, 1986
Summit Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671497545
A wispy face hovers in the sky for this book’s first edition jacket. The novel presents Sadie Ash, a woman who marries the man she loves, only to be deserted by him, then installed with their two daughters in his family’s Tuxedo Park mansion.
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Jonathan Franzen, 1988
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780374279721
“My tendency is to work all over the place, to do everything at once,” Fred told an interviewer. His collagist-instincts helped to visually capture the complexity of this author’s first novel about the social intersections within a fictionalized St. Louis.
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Claude Manceron, 1989
Touchstone Books
Reissue, Paperback
ISBN: 9780671680183
In 1988, Fred was commissioned by Simon & Schuster to design five book jackets for a series called “Chronicles of the French Revolution.” He chose to use tinted engravings throughout, as was the case for this first volume dealing with the aristocracy’s excesses and decline.
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Arthur Calder-Marshall, 1978
Harper & Row
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780060106171
One married the Duke of Devonshire in 1775 when she was 17. The other married the same Duke in 1809 at the age of 52, having been his mistress for twenty-five years. Fred captured the book’s time and flavor in his first edition jacket for this fascinating historical narrative.
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Walter Walker, 1985
Harper & Row
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780060154080
Fred created several jackets for books by Walter Walker, with the visual theme of evocative tinted photography. For this first edition, we might surmise that the action takes place in San Francisco. Walker is a full-time trial attorney there, with a unique perspective on crime.
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Nora Johnson, 1984
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671473020
Twin sisters are reunited at their childhood home when told by their father that he intends to divorce their mother. One has evolved into a straight-arrow, the other a bohemian sort. Fred’s first edition jacket presents a less complicated time in their lives.
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Milan Kundera, 1984
Harper & Row
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780060152581
This was the original cover of this famous book. For the paperback edition, Fred succumbed to the publisher’s desire for re-worked art. It was one of the only times he conceded that his second solution was better than his first.
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Milan Kundera, 1985
Harper & Row
First Edition, Paperback
ISBN: 9780060912529
You may recognize this cover, but there was a previous edition. One of the few times Fred agreed to the publisher’s desire for re-worked art. And one of the only times he conceded his second solution was better than his first.
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Bruce Chatwin, 1980
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671412531
Francisco Manuel da Silva was a Brazilian from the 1800s who became the most powerful slave trader in West Africa. For this rococo novella’s jacket, Fred’s portrait on a decaying stucco wall seems to capture his brutality through understatement.
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Helen Vendler, 1988
Random House
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394535203
In 1988, PBS Television aired a highly acclaimed series of programs on American poets, with this hardcover book offered as a companion to the shows. Fred succinctly encapsulated the title’s scope. And included another of his signature airbrushed skies.
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Francis King, 1986
Washington Square Press
First Edition, Paperback
ISBN: 9780671557386
Communication beyond the grave is the theme of this chilling work, in which three artfully delineated women try to get in touch with loved ones who’ve just died. For this paperback reprint, Fred delivered a stark table top, clearly suggestive of a very recent departure.
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Peter Schneider, 1984
Pantheon Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394529288
As Steven Heller has written, Fred was a “master of sky.” Here, a bit of it appears framed by the Berlin Wall, the subject of this book, infusing both sky and wall with subtle eloquence. A later edition depicts, guess what? Yep, a man jumping off a wall.
