Book Jackets: All (by title)
Displaying 217–252 of 616 book jackets
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James C. Hogan, 1979
Anchor Press
First Edition, Paperback
ISBN: 9780385145190
The book’s title is very straightforward, and so is Fred’s cover. This is a highly respected discourse on the subject at hand, reportedly based on a new and improved translation. Similarly, Fred was able to breathe new life into a traditional depiction from ancient iconography with his bold design.
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Bill Pronzini, 1982
Coward McCann & Geoghegan
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780698111806
Critics agree that this book is a humor classic, a compilation of the worst examples of over-the-top and just plain bad mystery writing over the years. Fred had a good time illustrating this appropriately cliché heroine clearly beset by bad guys of one sort or another.
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Valerie Worth, 1983
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780374328283
This is a tale for young readers featuring a girl who runs away from home to join a band of gypsies after her parents try to marry her off to a wealthy middle aged man. She winds up enjoying her new life and the people she meets. Fred's airbrushed image shows us her means of travel, framed by tarot card insets.
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Paul Theroux, 1986
Washington Square Press
First Edition Thus, Paperback
ISBN: 9780671602895
This paperback reissue of "Doctor Slaughter," (1984), retitled "Half Moon Street," was released in the lead-up to the release of the film adaptation starring Sigourney Weaver and Michael Caine. It presents two short novels on the theme of a double life. Although they differ in scene and character, both are full of a kind of eerie menace. Fred found an interesting way to visualize the premise.
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Margaret Atwood, 1986
Houghton Mifflin
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780395404256
This was ranked the #1 book jacket design of the last 25 years in Entertainment Weekly's “25 New Classic Covers.” Nan Talese, the book’s editor, reports that, upon seeing the sketch for the first time, Margaret Atwood gasped, “He read the book!”
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Herbert Ruhm, 1977
VIntage Books
First Edition Thus, Mass Market Paperback
ISBN: 9780394721569
Black Mask Magazine was a pulp monthly published from 1920 to 1951, which launched such genre superstars as Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett and Erle Stanley Gardner. For this anthology of classic short stories from its pages, Fred envisioned the prototype hero, hard-boiled as they come.
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Philip Kimball, 1984
E.P. Dutton
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780525242284
“Shooting snooker and pissing in the shuffleboard machine. Seemed to be ’bout the only things to do in Buffalo Gap.” So begins this acclaimed first novel about farm life on the Great Plains of South Dakota. For the first edition, Fred painted this unlikely interior.
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Seon Manley, 1980
Doubleday Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385153638
“Recommended for any fan of dolls, or anyone creeped out by them,” wrote one reviewer about this anthology, which features relevant writings by assorted authors, many of them very notable, like Agatha Christie and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Fred's illustration undeniably captures the spirit of the genre.
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Phyllis Grosskurth, 1980
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394501505
The subject of this book, born in the hey-day of Victorian Britain, bravely took on the task of writing frankly about human sexuality in all of its dimensions. When dealing with a straightforward biography such as this one, Fred often chose to confine his artistry to typographic design, while allowing photography to just do what it does best. To tell it like it is.
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Gillian Bradshaw, 1980
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671250935
The author, with a penchant for history, sets this book about Gawain in 6th Century Britain, shortly after the withdrawal of the Roman Empire from the islands. For the first edition jacket, Fred presents an appropriately rendered image of her famous hero.
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Donald Everett Axinn, 1982
Grove Press
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394528281
It wasn't often that Fred was invited to design a jacket for a book of poems. In some ways the task was akin to inventing the imagery for record albums, which had been his specialty in earlier years. All he had to work with as a jumping-off point, in both instances, was the title. Here his mastery of airbrush technique served to create a haunting image that encapsulated the subject at hand.
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Doris Betts, 1981
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394517988
A small town librarian heads west for a vacation with relatives when she is kidnapped at gunpoint by a stranger. She and her abductor wind up at the Grand Canyon. Fred's jacket art weaves these essential elements together visually, using a shadow, cast on a scenic card, to capture the plot’s most critical moment
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Lionel Black, 1979
Avon Books
First Edition, Mass Market Paperback
ISBN: 9780380436613
The paperback was the fourth book in the author’s Kate Theobald Mystery Series, this one the tale of murder set in a “fat farm.” Fred sometimes used the device of a skull in unexpected locations, here produced by the juice of a healthy, non-fattening grapefruit. Why not?
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Gabrielle Burton, 1986
Charles Scribner's Sons
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780684185941
How better to depict the plight of the traditional housewife, trapped in a very tiny doll house? Fred enlisted his wife to pose for this image, causing a bout of back pain that lasted for weeks. But the image, once again, nailed the author’s intention in a concisely wrought illustration.
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Hilma Wolitzer, 1980
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780374168704
A road trip, a stepmother and her new daughter getting acquainted. Another one of those tests of Fred’s mantra: “Never Illustrate the Title.” Well, there is a heart in there, but it just wanders in ever-so subtly. Pure Marcellino.
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Nicholas Falletta, 1988
D. C. Heath and Company
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780669137354
Fred greatly enjoyed creating covers for this series, published by his good friend Nick Falletta, which endeavored to instill a love of reading in children. This one was “level 1,” thus for the youngest target audience, presenting a garden abloom with a joyous array of books.
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Nicholas Falletta, 1988
D. C. Heath and Company
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780669137361
For this edition, one of several he designed for a series of Heath language textbooks, Fred found another way of presenting books. Personally, he found them delicious, and hoped to impart that same feeling in young readers. Of course, crayons had to be a part of the picture.
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Nicholas Falletta, 1988
D. C. Heath and Company
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780669123807
A swarm of books are attracted to light in this edition of the “Language Arts” series. Or perhaps the books themselves generate ideas. Or “enlightenment.” No matter what the interpretation, Fred’s illustration seems entirely appropriate.
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Nicholas Falletta, 1988
D. C. Heath and Company
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780669123814
Here is another in the Language Arts series, aiming to encourage a love of reading in children. Summer camp might provide an array of fun activities during the day, but what better form of entertainment might present itself at night than to hunker down with a good book?
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Nicholas Falletta, 1988
D. C. Heath and Company
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 0000000000000
TA-DA! Presenting a star-studded cast, the alphabet takes center stage in this edition of the “Language Arts” series. Fred took great pleasure in finding new and surprising settings for books. He hoped that his own love of reading would spread to new generations.
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Nicholas Falletta, 1988
D. C. Heath and Company
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780669123838
For this edition of the “Language Arts” series, Fred created a courthouse made of books. Perhaps some young reader might be inspired by the illustration to pursue a career in law. Well, maybe that’s a bit of a stretch. But it was certainly a charming and unexpected array.
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Nicholas Falletta, 1988
D. C. Heath and Company
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 0000000000000
An unexpected twist here for another book in the Language Arts series. Fred loved the late-Renaissance paintings of Arcimboldo, who achieved fame by concocting human faces out of fruits and vegetables. Why not books, pens, typewriters and paper clips? Young readers would likely enjoy the frivolity.
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Nicholas Falletta, 1988
D. C. Heath and Company
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 0000000000000
The “Language Arts” series was a delightful project for Fred. The challenge was to present the image of books in a context that would appeal to young readers. Here we see them arranged into a cityscape. As was often the case during these years, the airbrush played a big role.
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Nicholas Falletta, 1988
D. C. Heath and Company
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 0000000000000
Reading certainly can be said to “open doors.” Fred’s illustration for this edition of the “Language Arts” series suggests that great adventures await within books. His hope was that in some small way, his cover art for all of these texts would convey a sense of fun to youngsters.
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Lee Gladden, 1978
Rawson, Wade Publishers
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780892560714
Biblical cherubim were actually robots; UFOs are spacecraft manned by fallen Celestials from the Bermuda triangle; Adam and Eve were actually-super beings created by heavenly surgery. Star Wars fans might enjoy this space age interpretation of the bible. Others might be a bit horrified. Fred’s cover art just stands back and lets the viewer wonder about it all.
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Fred Kaplan, 1992
William Morrow and Company
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780688090210
When commissioned to create a cover for a biography, Fred felt that the best solution had to be the use of a photographic portrait wherever possible. But his artistry had to find an outlet, so, as was the case here, the typography was often a tour-de-force.
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Natalie Babbitt, 1982
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780374329594
In this adult novel, which alternates between the hero’s birth to his death, Herbert Rowbarge has an unknown twin brother. Years after the book’s publication, Fred collaborated with Natalie Babbitt to create the legendary “Ouch” for children.
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Heberto Padilla, 1984
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780374169824
On occasion, Fred opted to “let the type do the talking”. He loved typography, and never allowed any art director to get involved, except to say “I love it.” This book is an autobiographical account of the fate of intellectuals and artists during the Cuban revolution, which, in his view, didn’t seem to require any illustrative enhancements.
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Stratis Haviaras, 1984
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671492915
How children are affected by war, how they survive—if they survive—and how their childhood is stolen from them, are the themes of this novel. This soulful portrait of the book’s 12-year-old narrator says it all.
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Eric K. Goodman, 1980
Holt, Rinehart and Winston
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780030471667
When Fred designed record album covers in the 60s, he had nothing to go on except the title, often the name of the first song on Side A. For this novel’s jacket, he chose to literally translate the title of the book into visual form, through use of an elegantly designed photographic montage.
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J. R. Ackerley, 1990
Poseidon Press
First Edition, Paperback
ISBN: 9780671707057
When Evelyn Waugh says, “radiantly delightful...a book difficult to praise temperately,” how could a publisher, or Fred, resist featuring the quote on the jacket? Fred produced a number of covers for Ackerley’s books; for this one, a playful photo offset by an appropriate decorative device.
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Judith Rossner, 1990
Summit Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671648589
Again, here’s the “big book look,” with the author’s name greatly overpowering the title, for this first edition. The novel is an update of Louisa May Alcott’s classic, but takes place in Hollywood. Fred managed to marry the two elements with his clever bookmark.
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Suzanne Farrell, 1990
Summit Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671682224
By 1990, Fred’s attentions had turned to children’s books. But on occasion, he couldn’t resist taking a publisher’s request for a jacket design, as was the case here. He was an avid ballet fan, and great admirer of Suzanne Farrell in particular, so this contribution was a pleasure to him.
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Nancy Lynn Schwartz, 1982
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394411408
This book recounts the political turmoil that shattered the Hollywood community through the 1930s and into the 40s, leading to the House Un-American Activity Committee and the blacklist. Fred captured the essence of the time and the place.
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Clare Boylan, 1983
Summit Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671467500
Who removed the holy pictures from that wall, and why? Fred’s illustration, with an economy of means, finds a way to suggest that they were no longer relevant. The novel is about two Irish girls from the 1920s, and their struggle to break away from their restrictive upbringing.
