Displaying 37–72 of 616 book jackets
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Jonathan Fast,
1981
Random House
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780394515298
“In every woman’s dreams, there is a beast,” proclaims the first edition jacket. The heroine is a starlet whose beloved manager disappears in the Mojave Desert. Her search for him leads to a reclusive mad genius with a face so disfigured that he must wear a mask in public.
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Jay Neugeboren,
1985
Simon & Schuster
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780671543723
The novel’s main character has assumed a new identity to escape from his past as the nephew of a well-known Jewish gangster from Brooklyn in the 1950s. He is haunted by memories of his first family, wife, and daughter. For the first edition jacket, Fred’s still life synthesizes the hero’s two lives.
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Norma Klein,
1983
Dial Press
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780525241881
This is a novel for young-adult readers about exactly what the title proclaims it to be. Shy-boy meets the more-experienced-girl, resulting in trouble. Fred’s first edition jacket sidesteps the obvious by presenting a more oblique image than might be otherwise expected.
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Elly Welt,
1986
Viking Press
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780670809257
In this novel, a Jewish boy is hidden from the Nazis in a laboratory dedicated to the genetic study of flies. Fred used this appropriate imagery to symbolize the look and feel of the decay which prevailed during that period in Berlin.
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Terry Carr,
1977
Holt, Rinehart and Winston
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780030207167
For a collection of short stories in the science fiction genre, Fred’s all-type cover says it all. Interesting to note that his drop-shadows are sometimes above, below, to the right, and to the left of the letter forms.
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Francine Prose,
1986
Pantheon Books
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780394549767
The heroine works as a writer for a tabloid that sticks to unprovable stories, legends and lies. Fred’s jacket for this first edition combines the title’s two unlikely words without belaboring either one, reflecting the main character’s confusing career, and life.
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Elizabeth Arthur,
1988
Doubleday Books
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780385248440
The novel is patterned on steps in the casting of a spell. One reviewer said it was “....as good-natured in its fashion as one of Shakespeare's merrier comedies—the ones in which the irrational acquire some common sense and the rationalists learn to have a jolly time.”
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William Wharton,
1978
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780394425696
One of our all-time favorites. Fred won the 1980 American Book Award for Jacket Design for Birdy, receiving a Louise Nevelson Sculpture prize. Birdy won the U.S. National Book Award in category First Novel and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1980. In 1984, Birdy was adapted as a film of the same name, directed by Alan Parker and starring Matthew Modine and Nicolas Cage.
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Claude Manceron,
1991
Touchstone Books
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780671732936
Fred was commissioned by the publisher to create covers for the five books in this acclaimed series on the French Revolution. He loved going to the Public Library’s picture collection to do research. An obsolete practice, no doubt.
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Robert Kotlowitz,
1977
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780394492261
This grave and moving novel describes a youthful rite of passage in one fortnight at an Atlantic City Jewish family hotel during the year 1939. Fred’s subtle first edition jacket illustration captures the nostalgia, as the holiday air becomes sharper and thinner.
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Tom Wolfe,
1987
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9785551180005
“So the critical moment occurred when I came up with the image of two cities, the city of privilege and the poorer city, the real city, and an image of that city reflected.” – Fred Marcellino, “Covering Tom Wolfe,” How Magazine, September/October 1988. Bonfire of the Vanities won the Ambassador Book Award for Fiction in 1988. In 1990, it was adapted into a film directed by Brian De Palma and starring Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, and Kim Cattrall.
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Iris Murdoch,
1988
Viking Press
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780670819126
The broken Staffordshire figurine exactly suits the action presented in this novel, for Fred’s first edition jacket. The story echoes “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” chronicling the misadventures of a sprawling cast of upper-middle-class British sorts.
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Milan Kundera,
1980
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780394508962
John Updike wrote in his NY Times review, “This book, as it bluntly calls itself, is brilliant and original.” Fred loved Milan Kundera’s works, and often created their covers. In this one, be sure to check out what’s going on in that drop-shadow.
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Mary-Ann Tirone Smith,
1985
Doubleday Books
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780385196734
This coming-of-age novel introduces a self-confident young woman who might remind some readers of a female Holden Caulfield. When she learns she’s pregnant at nineteen, she travels to Paris to “bear fruit,” just as Fred’s oblique image might suggest.
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Barry Hannah,
1989
Houghton Mifflin
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780395488829
No one ever accused Barry Hannah of subtlety, and the same can be said of Fred’s typography for this first edition jacket. Kirkus described the autobiography as, “More booze-addled ranting and red-necked rambling from the bad old boy of southern fiction...”
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Taylor Caldwell,
1978
Doubleday Books
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780385141710
Sometimes less is more. This novel concerns the travails of a man who, at the age of 55, made a suicide attempt, and is now in a sanitarium where he maintains complete silence. Fred chose to forego any illustration.
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Annie Greene,
1985
Simon & Schuster
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780671498153
This is a melodramatic novel about three women from a small river town whose lives revolve around a local ne’er-do-well. Fred’s evocative painting captures the mood, inviting us to speculate about the doings behind that one lighted window.
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Kin Platt,
1981
J. B. Lippincott & Co.
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780397319459
A fifteen-year-old boy lacks confidence about his ability to be the fastest runner on his high school’s track team, until he happens upon a science fiction movie that changes everything. This cover illustration tells the whole story.
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Bob Randall,
1981
Simon & Schuster
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780671426309
A woman keeps receiving phone calls from an evil force. She can’t convince anyone that these calls are real. Fred’s mastery of airbrush helps to create the eeriness here. Then came the computer.
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Eleanor Clark,
1986
G. P. Putnam's Sons
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780399131226
Camping out isn’t always fun, as is made clear in this harrowing account of two women in an isolated tent by a Vermont lake. Fred’s beautiful artwork features some lovely irises, but one of them seems to be in trouble.
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Tony Cohan,
1981
Doubleday Books
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780385170864
“The Canary” is a famous singer who dies mysteriously in this novel about the pop music industry. The record album jacket was a very familiar canvas for Fred, who designed a great many of them throughout the 1960s and ‘70s.
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Gerald Clarke,
1988
Hamish Hamilton Limited
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780671228118
When commissioned to create a cover for a well-known person’s biography, most often the best solution is to find a compelling photo. But Fred loved typography, and managed to uplift any image with its sensitive use.
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Barry Hannah,
1985
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780394544588
“Barry Hannah persists in making rude noises,” wrote the reviewer for Time Magazine, continuing “…Captain Maximus is full of spite, rage, booze and unregenerate boorishness.” For the first edition, Fred managed to make his all-type cover appropriately intrusive.
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Margaret Atwood,
1989
Doubleday Books
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780385260077
Margaret Atwood appreciated Fred’s insistence on reading a manuscript before tackling a book jacket. After the success of “A Handmaid’s Tale,” unsurprisingly, she requested that he be selected to create the cover for her next novel’s first edition.
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Don Metz,
1988
HarperCollins
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780060158781
Before leaving for Vietnam, Harmon Woodard demands to know if the child his wife is carrying is his, or his twin brother’s. For the first edition jacket, Fred delivered a moody landscape enhanced by a shimmering background. Note the elegant use of type, always so crucial in his work.
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Eric Rolfe Greenberg,
1983
Everest Publishing House
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780896961715
In the tradition of novels such as “Ragtime,” this is an artful blending of fact and fiction, as two brothers develop a case of hero-worship for one of baseball’s earliest super-stars. Christy Mathewson’s career is chronicled here and is echoed in Fred’s classic baseball-card inset.
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Sara McAulay,
1982
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780394518695
Fred often found provocative ways of depicting things that were not there, as in this first edition jacket. The missing party here is “Chance,” the nickname of the heroine’s murdered lover, Chauncey Griffin, a jockey and rodeo showman.
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Julio Cortazar,
1980
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780394507217
For this compilation of short stories, Fred played off the book’s title with his typography. The letter forms are defined solely by their drop shadows. Through a glow, we’re looking up at the title, and down at the author’s name.
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Christopher Isherwood,
1976
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780374312565
In this autobiographical work, the famous author explores the topic of his homosexuality in earlier years, when it was basically unmentionable. Fred’s art deco-inspired typography reflects the era.
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Rick DeMarinis,
1978
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780374123642
From the earliest days of his career as a book jacket designer, Fred was in demand by publishers for first editions of “serious fiction,” as was the case here. The novel features the hospital-bed notebooks of the late Ulysses Cinder, recounting his adventures with an actual genie.
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George C. Chesbro,
1978
Simon & Schuster
First Edition,
Hardcover
ISBN:
9780671240035
The second book in the Mongo Series, the brilliant dwarf-detective finds himself in Iran on a desperate mission. The publisher commissioned Fred to do jackets for a number of “Mongos.”
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Reid Mitchell,
1989
Touchstone Books
First Edition,
Paperback
ISBN:
9780671686413
Northern and Southern men went to war as Americans, each one convinced that they fought an un-American, savage enemy. Here are two of them, enhanced by Fred’s period type treatment, and signature “swag.”
Displaying 37–72 of 616 book jackets
Jonathan Fast, 1981
Jay Neugeboren, 1985
Norma Klein, 1983
Elly Welt, 1986
Terry Carr, 1977
Francine Prose, 1986
Elizabeth Arthur, 1988
William Wharton, 1978
Claude Manceron, 1991
Robert Kotlowitz, 1977
Tom Wolfe, 1987
Iris Murdoch, 1988
Milan Kundera, 1980
Mary-Ann Tirone Smith, 1985
Barry Hannah, 1989
Taylor Caldwell, 1978
Annie Greene, 1985
Kin Platt, 1981
Bob Randall, 1981
Eleanor Clark, 1986
Tony Cohan, 1981
Gerald Clarke, 1988
Barry Hannah, 1985
Margaret Atwood, 1989
Don Metz, 1988
Eric Rolfe Greenberg, 1983
Sara McAulay, 1982
Julio Cortazar, 1980
Christopher Isherwood, 1976
Rick DeMarinis, 1978
George C. Chesbro, 1978
Reid Mitchell, 1989
