Book Jackets: All (by title)
Displaying 145–180 of 616 book jackets
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Henry Bean, 1982
Poseidon Press
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671442514
The hero decides to fall in love with a woman he has never met. He knows of her existence only by having overheard mention of her in his roommate’s phone conversation. The themes presented in this novel mesh perfectly with some of Fred's favorite pictorial devices: shadows, windows, and skies.
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Blond Anthony, 1978
Harper & Row
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780060103644
Fred’s eloquent business sign tells us in a flash that the title must refer to a respected establishment with a long history. In the novel, set in 1936, the main character has the responsibility of maintaining a successful company, but in addition, he feels obliged to manipulate the family’s exuberant private lives.
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David Leavitt, 1991
Warner Books
First Edition, Paperback
ISBN: 9780446393263
“An astonishing collection of short stories—set deep in the twisted heart of middle-class America...” said the New York Times. Fred’s evocative footprints manage to capture the very ordinariness of the book’s times and places, in conjunction with that ominous shadow.
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Timothy Findley, 1981
Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780440024774
Once again, Fred chose to depict a visual metaphor for the title of this novel about the last days of World War II, as a frozen corpse is discovered in an Alps prison, with desperate and revealing scrawls on all of the walls and ceilings.
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Peter Haining, 1976
VIntage Books
First Edition, Paperback
ISBN: 9780394721095
This book presents the sensation-packed, nickel and dime publications that brought the stuff of dreams to millions of ordinary people from the 1920s to the ‘40s. The jacket was an early one for Fred, and it’s easy to see how much he enjoyed creating it.
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Marcel Allain, 1986
William Morrow and Company
Reissue, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780688043605
Fantomas was a classic French anti-hero and arch-criminal invented in the early years of the twentieth century by co-authors, who were widely considered to be pulp fiction hacks. But they were revered by many.
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Ernest Hemingway, 1987
Collier Books
First Edition, Paperback
ISBN: 9780020519003
In 1987, Fred was commissioned to create covers for a series of Hemingway paperback reissues. There was to be a recognizable visual format, yet each book was to be presented as reflective of that novel’s individual character. He designed a format, but chose to use photographic imagery as the basis for each illustration.
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Fraser Harrison, 1985
Pantheon Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394546940
Looking at family life from a man’s vantage point, this chronicle follows the ups and downs of fatherhood in a small English country home. The writer clearly relishes his role as observer of four-year-old Tilly and three-year old Jack.
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Alexandra Towle, 1986
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671638597
As the cover type announces, this is a compilation of prose, poetry and photography dedicated to the celebration of fatherhood. Fred loved to use silhouettes, when appropriate, to convey a sense of the historical past. In this case, his images also suggest the passage of time.
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Michel Tournier, 1984
Doubleday Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385153546
The stories presented in this book deal with “the sordid supernatural” (the author's own description of his work). In one of them, an erotomaniac has escaped from a mental asylum, where he’d been confined after trying to retrieve a garter belt from a woman in the metro. Can that be the object that Fred chose to place on the bookshelf?
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Thomas Berger, 1983
Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780440028338
This book is a masterpiece of cynical and nasty slapstick humor involving the Bullards and the Beelers, two families at war, from an American small town in the 1930s. Note the manner in which the pie’s juicy contents slithers down onto the type panel.
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Barbara Pym, 1981
Harper Perennial
First Edition, Paperback
ISBN: 9780060805494
Fred was always enthusiastic about creating jackets for anything written by Barbara Pym. In this case, it turned out to be her final novel. Once again, the heroine is a middle-aged Englishwoman. She travels to a small village intending to write a treatise on recent social changes. But her anthropological objectivity is compromised when she meets Tom, the vicar.
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Lois Gould, 1988
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
First Edition, Paperback
ISBN: 9780374521073
The 1970s brought about Womens’ Lib, and at its forefront were several female authors, among them Lois Gould. Fred created this format, and several jackets, for a series of re-issues. In this one, the heretofore masochistic heroine “discovers herself” through writing.
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Pamela Chais, 1981
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671251963
A notorious and much-disliked Hollywood talent agent is murdered, and the detective assigned to investigate happens to be a former child star, once the victim's client. As always, Fred tried to encapsulate any author's intention in one succinct image.
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Philip F. O'Connor, 1991
Summit Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671731557
The main character in this novel, a young man with Down’s syndrome, struggles to join the outer world after having been confined to an institution where he was punished by placement in solitary confinement. Fred's jacket illustration suggests the torment of that quiet isolation.
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Peter Ackroyd, 1989
Grove Press
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780802111616
Fred delighted in allowing bits of sky to peek through unlikely places. For the jacket of this first edition, he presents an archeology dig with subtle wheelbarrows and shovels, but what they appear to have uncovered is an infinite future. And that’s exactly what the book’s about.
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Todd McEwen, 1984
Harper & Row
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780060151645
Fred was always in search of the unexpected visual metaphor, as you can see in this jacket illustration. The book’s main character, who’s been for years carting around an old violin (which he can’t play), loses his sanity at the story’s very beginning.
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Robert Campbell, 1985
New Science Library
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780877732655
Fishing in the wilderness provides the setting for discussions on science, the rhythms of the universe and the subsequent rhythms of organizations. Heady stuff. Fred managed to offer us an image that seamlessly, and cleverly, ties the title to the notion of insight.
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Jim Shepard, 1983
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394532653
It’s probably not unusual for a thirteen-year-old boy to fantasize about escaping parental burdens by just flying away. In this book for young readers, the hero does just that. As usual, Fred found a way to tell the story in one image.
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Ernest Hemingway, 1987
Collier Books
Reissue, Paperback
ISBN: 9780020518501
In 1987, Fred was commissioned by Collier to create jackets for four paperback re-issues of famous and classic Hemingway novels. A requirement was that a format be designed to establish commonality. Fred chose to incorporate tinted period photography.
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R. S. Jones, 1991
Viking Press
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780670835911
For this first edition jacket, Fred appropriately began with one of M. C. Escher’s convoluted and improbable interiors. This is a tale about mental illness. Its protagonist, drowning in the routine tasks of daily life, quietly loses his sanity, taking the reader along for the ride.
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Linda Schele, 1990
William Morrow and Company
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780688074562
More often than not, publishers relied on Fred to create jackets for their works of ”serious fiction.” On occasion, as here, he was asked to deal with a work of pure scholarship, a study on newly unearthed Maya hieroglyphs. His approach was to simply get out of the way, and present the material under discussion unadorned, although not without some of his typographic wizardry.
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Shelley List, 1982
E.P. Dutton
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780525241324
“Never take candy from a stranger,” said many a parent. An accomplished female photojournalist takes on an assignment that triggers some shocking recollections in this soul-wrenching novel. Fred's illustration reflects innocence betrayed.
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Alice Hoffman, 1985
G. P. Putnam's Sons
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780399130564
Fred’s first edition jacket gently echoes the words of the New York Times reviewer: “The novel is mainly concerned with tremendous events, with childbirth and the loss of children... with enduring love and devastating infatuation.”
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Paddy Kitchen, 1979
Harper & Row
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780060124069
It’s been said that Fred revolutionized the book jacket. He insisted on reading the entire manuscript before beginning to design any cover. In this case, one image tells us a tale of marriage, and cozy domesticity. But that key?
