Book Jackets: All (by title)
Displaying 109–144 of 616 book jackets
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Ray Bradbury, 1985
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394547022
The undisputed Dean of American Storytelling veered from science fiction into mystery for this tale of mayhem set in Venice, California in the 1950s. Fred’s first edition jacket hints at bizarre events, including puzzling, and sometimes fatal, “accidents.”
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Allen Wier, 1983
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671433079
This novel chronicles the memories of Jessie as she nears the end of her life. Fred’s lonely cactus flower captures the mood, as the heroine looks back on her complicated history, finding a lot to celebrate after all.
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Jon Tuska, 1978
Doubleday Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385120937
The cover is a testament to Fred’s love of typography, and in the case of the words “in Hollywood,” a carefully hand-rendered feat of the airbrush. The letterforms are non-existent, defined only by their drop shadows.
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Botho Strauß, 1977
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
First American Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780374138523
A bookseller is despondent when his girlfriend leaves him. He decides to get her back by writing a magnificent novel. An “all-type” cover, yes, but how on earth did Fred manage to come up with that twisted title lettering?
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Lynn Garafola, 1989
Oxford University Press
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780195057010
As an avid ballet-goer, Fred was always delighted to provide jackets for any book related to the topic. This one, though, was particularly enjoyable to design. What could be more inspiring than the 1920s sophistication of Diaghilev’s art-filled world?
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Fred Kaplan, 1988
William Morrow and Company
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780688043414
Drawing on unpublished material brought to light in the 1980s, this portrait of the famous novelist explores the autobiographical significance of his greatest works and gives a frank account of his marriage, and his relationship with his mistress.
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Walter Walker, 1983
HarperCollins
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780060151454
There were times when Fred felt that a photograph could tell the story better than an illustration, and here was one such case. To evoke the mood for this mystery, he applied airbrushed tone over an old print. The whole effect leans heavily on that central street light.
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Anne Tyler, 1982
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394523811
For the jacket of this book’s first edition, Fred found an image that perfectly reflected the title, as well as the story’s mood and content. He insisted upon reading every manuscript before embarking on its cover, and wished they were all as enjoyable as this one.
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Jean Gould, 1985
HarperCollins
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780688049706
This novel covers a lot of territory, some of it quite disjointed. Fred seems to have focused on the title as a jumping-off point for this jacket, rather than exploring the actual content. He created a heartfelt depiction of nostalgia.
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Jamie Gilson, 1980
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780688419608
As Fred’s artful jacket illustration suggests, this is an inspiring book about a six-grader who has dyslexia. He worries about how he’ll be received in his new school. Fortunately, his teachers recognize his talent for mathematics.
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Dorothy Dunnett, 1984
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394523774
Fred was invited to create jackets for this series, “The Dolly Mysteries.” Here he juxtaposes his rendered tropical flowers with a silhouetted portrait of the heroine as she journeys to the Caribbean in a luxury yacht.
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Dorothy Dunnett, 1982
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394523767
Another jacket for “The Dolly Mysteries” series. Each of these books has a different heroine, this time a nanny. She becomes embroiled in a kidnap plot. Fred follows through with his signature lifesaver image, and appropriate silhouette.
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Jessamyn West, 1980
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780151264025
The author traveled to Europe in 1929, where she kept a detailed account of her days. Fifty years later, when in her seventies, she revisited her journals, diaries and letters. This book examines what she learned about herself in the process.
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Francis Hitching, 1978
Anchor Press
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385121255
We have serious doubts that Fred ever read this one. The author believes that evolution is directed by some sort of cosmic force. Best to just create an airbrushed illustration of a traditional water-divining apparatus and call it a day.
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Anne McCaffrey, 1979
Atheneum Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780689306853
A young adult science fiction book, this is the author’s sixth in the Pern Series. The hero switches to learning the drums after his voice change ends his participation in the chorus. Fred created covers for several of these books.
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Anne McCaffrey, 1977
Atheneum Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780689305702
This is another novel in the Pern series, and is a sequel to “Dragondrums.” This time, the theme explores the trials of a young female in the music conservatory who faces difficulties in an all-male setting.
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Anne McCaffrey, 1976
Atheneum Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780689305078
Fred's award-winning first edition jacket for this young adult classic, the third in McCaffrey's series of science fiction novels, depicts the heroine's rescue by a dragonrider, T'gran, and his brown dragon, Branth. In Benden Weyr, Menolly is free to pursue her musical ambitions.
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Brian Aherne, 1979
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671247973
Was actor George Sanders, who committed suicide in 1972 at age 65, really a dreadful man? Perhaps. But here, through the eyes of best (nearly only) friend Brian Aherne, he's just a one-dimensionally pathetic one—spending his last 15 years of life as a roving curmudgeon.
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Theodore Roszak, 1985
Doubleday Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385188944
The heroine of this novel has a special gift: she can observe the dreams of others. For the first edition of this haunting psychological thriller, Fred painted a sleeper as seen from above, with virtuosic treatment of the bedsheets’ folds.
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Primo Levi, 1987
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671632809
Coming up with jacket imagery for books dealing with the Holocaust was always a special challenge. Avoiding the trite, grotesque, or maudlin could be a delicate exercise. Here Fred seems to have struck exactly the right tone.
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Josef Skvorecky, 1987
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394546810
This is an anecdotal novel, its title referring not only to Anton Dvorak's love for the beautiful elder sister of the woman he married, but also to his more fruitful love for the folk tunes, spirituals and jazz that captured him on his visit to America in the 1890's.
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Rebecca Josephs, 1980
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780374145798
Set in New York City, this novel tells the story of a bright 15-year-old girl whose general anxiety about growing up results in anorexia. Fred depicted her as willowy, as desired, but hopelessly boxed-in.
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A.B. Yehoshua, 1977
Doubleday Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385025904
The jacket image summarizes the mood of this book’s three short stories. In each of them, the Israeli author illuminates the stark realities of his country’s wartime sacrifices. Fred’s simple landscape tells it all.
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Susan Cahill, 1976
Harper & Row
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780060106218
What happens when a smart, spirited young girl is taught that her only path to “goodness” is to either marry young and bear children, or to enter a convent? Fred’s illustration only pretends to be simple.
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Anne Tyler, 1977
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394411477
Fred was Anne Tyler’s preferred book jacket designer. He enthusiastically crystalized her words in his images on many occasions. In this case it’s clear that the heroine has decided to vacate her premises, as the title suggests.
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Richard C. Mears, 1980
Wyndham Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671610326
The book is subtitled “A Fictional Memoir,” and is often compared to Huck Finn, as Fred’s first edition jacket might suggest. It presents the life of a boy growing up on the banks of the Patuxent River, as he grapples with the issues of growing up in a mixed-race society.
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Ross Thomas, 1979
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671246532
After World War II, a spy and a dwarf conceive a plan to find a Nazi killer and deliver him to the Allies. Fred shows us a swastika invaded by the shadow of a man “off camera,” as someone else (the dwarf?) looks on.
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Josef Skvorecky, 1984
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394505008
Writers are said to have been described by Joseph Stalin as “engineers of human souls.” In this jacket for a comic novel by a Czech emigré, Fred presented the book’s title in an unexpected but entirely appropriate way.
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Josef Skvorecky, 1985
Pocket Books
First Edition, Paperback
ISBN: 9780671556822
For the paperback edition of this acclaimed comic novel, Fred allowed the title to spill out of the author’s typewriter in an unexpected fashion, while highlighting an endorsement by the famed Milan Kundera.
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John Houseman, 1986
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671622336
John Houseman, the producer, director, and Academy Award-winning actor, here presented a collection of essays, book reviews, forwards, and newspaper columns, among other previously published works. Fred’s chose a straightforward design for the book’s first edition jacket.
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David Leavitt, 1989
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9781555842024
For the jacket of this first edition, Leavitt’s third novel, Fred chose to depict the most direct visual expression of affection. In his hands, a stubby pencil and crumpled piece of paper take on unexpected eloquence, and aptly summarize the thrust of this family drama.
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Richard Sennett, 1984
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394513003
A cellist, who uses his music to keep emotions at bay, finds the fulness of spiritual reality after a tragic accident. Fred often chose to depict evocative shadows, rather than actuality, to capture a mood.
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Joan Chase, 1989
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780374150037
“The evening wolves" of the outside world threaten to devour lost sheep Ruthann and Margy, sisters who, with their stepmother and younger brother, are the narrators of this novel. Fred greatly enlarged an engraving to achieve this startling effect for his first edition jacket.
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Russell Lucas, 1991
Summit Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671727468
These stories are centered on Bombay, the city of the author’s birth, during the raucous ‘40s and ‘50s.When publishers asked Fred to place multiple critical blurbs on a jacket, he was undaunted.
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Barbara Pym, 1980
Harper Perennial
First Edition, Paperback
ISBN: 9780060805128
Fred was a big fan of Barbara Pym, and loved designing jackets for her novels. They usually dealt with British women of a certain age, lonely, intimidated, and irretrievably polite at all costs. Her work is often described as updated Jane Austen, as his illustration suggests.
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Robert P. Holdstock, 1977
Doubleday Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385126816
Eerily relevant, this science fiction tale presents us with an Earth nearly wiped out by a pandemic, and the search by survivors for other habitable planets. On occasion, Fred chose all-type solutions, but always with a twist. Here the illustrative elements hint at vast distances and the unknown.
