Book Jackets: All (by title)
Displaying 181–216 of 616 book jackets
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Oscar Hijuelos, 1993
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780374158156
The title’s fourteen sisters (there's also one son) are the offspring of immigrants, an Irish man (a photographer), and his Cuban wife. It's a sprawling tale covering generations. This might be the last book jacket that Fred ever designed, following his award-winning cover for the author's previous success “Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love.”
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Valerie Worth, 1986
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780374327835
Young readers enthusiastically embraced this Gothic novel immediately upon its publication. The spooky landscape, the inevitable mansion, and the ghostly presence that wandered about the premises, were all embodied in Fred's jacket art. It wasn't unusual for Fred to allow a disembodied face to hover in the sky.
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Leo Braudy, 1986
Oxford University Press
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780195040036
This book spans thousands of years and explores the ever-evolving cultural changes that define the notion of fame. Fred’s first edition jacket reveals Fame as a goddess, her gift a generous bestowal on the chosen few, as the world looks on.
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Mark Singer, 1985
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394532363
As the jacket copy declares, this book is about the 1982 Penn Square Bank debacle. Fred’s bubbly dollar sign gurgles out of all those oil wells, in much the same way that real money erupted out of the Oklahoma boom-time landscape.
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John Berger, 1980
Pantheon Books
Reissue, Paperback
ISBN: 9780394739670
In 1972, the author won a Booker Prize for this novel set in the late 19th and early 20th century, in which the sexual misadventures of a Don Juan are intermixed with historical details of the period. For the jacket of this paperback reissue, Fred chose to show a couple in a hurry to somewhere, probably not anywhere they'd like others to know about.
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Stephen Geller, 1979
Harper & Row
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780060114930
A reviewer described this novel as one about “parapsychologist espionage.” Gad works for British Intelligence, headed by a witch. Since he possesses ESP, his powers are of great use to the agency. Fred’s ominous ball in the sky containing the book’s title foreshadows what the reader might encounter within its pages.
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Heilman, Samuel Heilman, 1984
Summit Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671524890
Book-jacket-wise, Fred felt that sometimes less was more. This author, a professor of sociology, firmly planted in the world of science, took a sabbatical to Jerusalem in an attempt to gain a greater understanding of his roots. In doing so, he found a link to the historical past that surprised and deeply moved him.
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Vicki Covington, 1988
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671660550
This novel, set in Alabama, explores the angry gulf between the religious left and the religious right, through the eyes of a spirited young woman. An adoptee, she seeks and finds her birth father, who turns out to be both agnostic and homosexual.
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Edwin Corley, 1980
Doubleday Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385150187
Happily, this is a work of fiction. A small fissure has opened up in a rock located in the middle of Central Park, which forewarns of a volcanic explosion that will cause the entire city’s destruction in hours. Fred's illustration simply tells it straight, there's the rock, the spewing steam, and skyscrapers in the distance.
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M. E. Kerr, 1978
Harper & Row
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780060231767
A horrifying revelation presents itself to a young man when he proudly introduces his girlfriend to his estranged, aristocratic grandfather. The illustrations in Fred's cover art seem to reflect the ”gentle” part of the novel's title, while tempting the reader to investigate further.
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Peter Gethers, 1987
Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385295239
Growing up in the 1950s, the hero believed he was destined for baseball greatness. During the next two decades as a much-traded .260 hitter, he came to realize that he was not the best. Once again Fred nailed the thought, with his image of that unreachable moon/baseball.
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Thomas M. Disch, 1976
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394498034
One of the short stories in this collection presents an office temp who prepares a sumptuous meal for her date, Death. “It's all exhilarating and not terribly serious,” according to the New York Times review. Fred played with the title here, for the book’s first edition jacket.
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Stephen Minot, 1979
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780060129781
The viewer supplies the unacknowledged horizon line here, with the help of the elegant water foul’s wiggly reflection, as he stands in unseen water. For this first edition’s jacket, Fred delivered an appropriately ghostly image with great subtlety.
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Marsha Parker, 1982
E.P. Dutton
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780525241096
Gay Mortenson returns with her husband to his native Oxfordshire, where she finds married life less than she imagined and answers the seductive call of a beautiful man in armor who calls her by name. Unfortunately, he’s a ghost.
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Noel Hynd, 1988
Doubleday Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385237901
One of the book’s reviewers said: “There was, however, another Giant era, a time when certain giant Giants would speak derisively of lesser teams in lesser boroughs...” For this first edition jacket, Fred portrayed that team and its era.
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Oswald Wynd, 1977
Harper & Row
First Edition, Paperback
ISBN: 9780060147297
Masterpiece Theatre produced a miniseries based on this novel. The author, a Scot born in Japan, tells the tale of a young Scottish woman who sails to the Far East to be married, but falls in love with a Japanese aristocrat, to the horror of the British.
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Barry Miles, 1989
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671507138
In part thanks to early friendships with renegades like Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg occupies an enduring position in American literature. This biography’s New York Times review refers to “...the strange leap Mr. Ginsberg was always making between sanity and madness.”
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Willis Johnson, 1986
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780151356911
This is a series of short tales, all revolving around a small community of Russians living in a Maine town. The title story concerns a girl who chooses to fake an accent, and to dress in costumes that seem to be consistent with it.
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Hugo Vickers, 1980
Holt, Rinehart and Winston
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780030447518
Fred delighted in an opportunity to enhance his cover art with embellishments from the Belle Epoch, especially those incredible art nouveau typefaces. This biography enlightens the reader about one of the period’s most celebrated beauties. It’s a tale of a life suffused with turmoil.
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Barbara Pym, 1981
Harper Perennial
First Edition, Paperback
ISBN: 9780060805500
Once again, Fred had the opportunity to create a book jacket for a work by one of his favorite authors. This novel was first published in 1958, and was noteable at the time for its reference to homosexuality, rarely dealt with in the period’s literature. For this later edition, Fred returned to use of a classic silhouette, reflecting the demure heroine looking into a small mirror (nope, too early for an iPhone).
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Hilde Bruch, 1979
VIntage Books
First Edition, Paperback
ISBN: 9780394726885
This is considered to be the classic study on the subject of anorexia nervosa, a little-understood syndrome at the time of its publication. Over the years, this volume has proven to be of great use to patients and doctors alike. Certainly the jacket commission was a change of pace for Fred, but he found a way to gracefully illuminate the subject in one succinct image.
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Carolyn See, 1987
McGraw-Hill
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780070561205
The heroine of this novel moves to sunny California. She finds love and wealth, but the Great Threat looms. How do you visually marry two of this novel’s main theme’s, celebration and nuclear holocaust? Fred found a way.
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Michel Tournier, 1987
Doubleday Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385237598
A man named Idris lives in a culture which regards “portrayers” (painters and sculptors) as the purest of evil doers. He finds a jewel, a drop of pure gold, in the sand. He regards it as an antidote to imagery. Fred’s first edition jacket presents the premise with simple eloquence.
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Doris Lessing, 1984
Simon & Schuster
Reissue, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671287702
When the author won the Nobel Prize, the Swedish Academy said: “The burgeoning feminist movement saw it as a pioneering work....” For the jacket of this classic’s reissue, Fred chose a simple stack of the author’s famous color-coded notebooks.
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Raleigh Trevelyan, 1987
Touchstone Books
Reprint, Paperback
ISBN: 9780671669775
In her New York Times review of this exhaustive examination of the British Raj, Jan Morris stated, “It may well be one of the last in the long line of Anglo-Indian memoirs, and by a happy chance it is certainly one of the best.” Fred chose this tinted photo as a visual summary.
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Jean Rhys, 1981
Harper Perennial
First Edition, Mass Market Paperback
ISBN: 9780060805807
Jean Rhys is said to have been one of Jackie Kennedy’s favorite authors, with her tales of formerly beautiful but cash-strapped heroines from the 1920s and '30s. Fred created jackets for a series of paperback re-issues, all featuring lovely ladies.
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Barbara Abercrombie, 1979
Harper & Row
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780060100216
It's about a rape and a murder, but manages to be essentially comedic as well. It's a bit surprising that, at this early stage in Fred's jacket-designing career, he was able to convince the publisher that this conceptual cover would be a good idea. Yep, nothing there. Good riddance.
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Alistair MacLean, 1978
Doubleday Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385128537
A fanatic terrorist kidnaps a nuclear scientist in order to find a way to trigger a series of explosions that will target California’s faultlines, hence the novel's title. Fred found an ingenious way to convincingly incorporate that title into a depiction of the disastrous results.
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Katherine Paterson, 1978
Thomas Y. Crowell Co.
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780690038378
This children's novel won the National Book Award. The main character is a mean, brash eleven-year-old girl who is bounced around from foster home to foster home. It would be entirely within her character to obscure her entire face behind a bubble when expected to have her picture taken.
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Carolly Erickson, 1984
Summit Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671503925
What better way to present a book about Henry the Eighth than to simply reproduce the renowned portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger? Fred chose to mute the painting’s colors, perhaps to allow the title to take center stage, with his exquisite typographic treatment.
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Boris Schwarz, 1987
Touchstone Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671604615
For this collection of short biographies of the world's greatest violinists, Fred created a powerful illustration in his favorite medium of the time, airbrush. The instrument bursts out of its designated location, defying the viewer to question its importance.
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Donald Oliver, 1982
Avon Books
First Edition, Paperback
ISBN: 9780380791941
Is there such a thing as acrobatic typography? In this case, the book’s title boldly takes center stage to announce that the contents within are sure to provoke laughter, presenting comedic sketches by the twentieth century’s most celebrated wits.
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Ernest Hemingway, 1987
Collier Books
Reissue, Paperback
ISBN: 9780020519300
Here is another of Fred’s covers for paperback re-issue 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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Schroeder Marion, 1977
Doubleday Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385124232
Fred used to say that, in his opinion, gardening was the highest art form. In his hands, it certainly was. He was never happier than when working in his many gardens in the upstate New York country house. His illustration for the jacket of this compendium of relevant suppliers is certainly an explicit translation of the title, and also of his self-identity.
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Ethan Mordden, 1987
Oxford University Press
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780195044256
Amazing how archaic the sight of a phonograph record appears now. This one makes a spectacular grand entrance as the curtain parts. In his book jackets for fiction, Fred had the author’s subtle vision to portray, but not for a compendium such as this one.
