Book Jackets: All (by title)
Displaying 253–288 of 616 book jackets
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John L’Heureux, 1991
Viking Press
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780670829194
A New England teacher’s life is tested by accusations of impropriety that will destroy his career and transform his life. For the jacket of this acclaimed novel’s first edition, Fred hinted at the main character’s swirl of confusion with his wrap-around title treatment.
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Nobuko Albery, 1986
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671605209
Fred’s first edition jacket presents a novelized historical romance about the founder of the Noh theater of Japan, Zeami, who at the age of 12 became the beloved of the Ashikaga Shogun Yoshimitsu, ruler of all 14th-century Japan.
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Marilynne Robinson, 1989
Bantam Books
Reissue, Paperback
ISBN: 9780553346633
The author went on to win a Pulitzer Prize, but this was her widely acclaimed first novel, printed in many editions. The novel treats the subject of housekeeping, not only in the domestic sense of cleaning, but in the larger sense of keeping a spiritual home for one's self and family
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Mary Breasted, 1983
Harper & Row
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780060150921
This novel introduces us to a young reporter just hired by a very respectable newspaper (sort of the NY Times) whose primary credential is a stint at a counterculture sheet (sort of the Village Voice). Complications ensue, as you might imagine.ntary
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George Leonard, 1984
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671496760
When a loner, trying to prevent the slaughter of birds in a wildlife sanctuary, kills a man, he experiences a pleasure in killing that drives him to retreat beneath the ice-covered waters of Long Island Sound. Fred’s first edition jacket image finds him there.
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William T. Vollman, 1990
Viking Press
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780670832392
In this speculative history, the time is the tenth century A.D. The newcomers from Iceland call their newly discovered land “Vinland the Good.” The natives are a bronze-skinned race who have not yet discovered iron and still see themselves as part of nature.
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Alice Hoffman, 1987
G. P. Putnam's Sons
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780399132827
The book’s title refers to an annual celebration on Martha’s Vineyard, in which hundreds of Japanese lanterns are set to glowing in a park. It provides the setting for this novel, which involves the mundane details of life, while managing to elevate them with mythic forcefulness, much like Fred’s illustration.
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Tamás Aczél, 1981
Pantheon Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394512600
“Two pairs of spectacles confront each other on the cover of ‘Illuminations,’” observed D. M. Thomas in his New York Times review. The novel deals with a Hungarian dentist who loses his eyesight. Ophthalmic references abound throughout the book, so why not?
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Milan Kundera, 1991
Grove Press
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780802111111
Fred was honored to provide jackets for the first editions of four Milan Kundera novels: “The Joke,” “The Book of Laughter and Forgetting,” “The Unbearable Lightness of Being,” and “Immortality.” For this one, he created a masterful trompe l’oeil painting.
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Elizabeth Tallent, 1983
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394528168
This novel’s characters are marked by despair and confusion, with an inability to settle, or to commit themselves to each other. For the first edition jacket, Fred’s feather suggests that its owner has “taken flight” once again, as the title proclaims.
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Ernest Hemingway, 1987
Collier Books
Reissue, Paperback
ISBN: 9780020518105
Hemingway’s lean, tough prose, and ear for the colloquial, seemed startlingly innovative in 1925 when these short stories were originally published. This is another in the series of book jackets Fred created for an extensive paperback re-issue in 1988.
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Bruce Chatwin, 1977
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Paperback
ISBN: 9780671448578
For the first American edition of this now-classic travelogue, the publisher was eager to highlight six excerpted raves from the British press. Fred never shied away from a design challenge if he found it to be sensible, as was the case here.
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Paul Watkins, 1990
Houghton Mifflin
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780395551363
The author recounts the story, based on actual events, of an aviator who, mired in the Foreign Legion in 1918, managed to stay alive under highly improbable circumstances. For this first edition jacket, Fred’s portrait captured the hero’s cocky optimism.
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Clive Barker, 1986
Poseidon Press
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671626877
AGGHHH! Well, Stephen King said, “I have seen the future of horror, and its name is Clive Barker.” For the classic’s first edition jacket, Fred chose an interpretation of its title story, in which a prisoner watches as his cellmate is transformed into a monster.
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Hilma Wolitzer, 1983
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780374176563
Fred used the image of rumpled bed sheets in several of his book jackets. He considered them to be part of his ‘‘visual vocabulary,” along with floating faces, fountain pens, and interrupted walls. This book's author was a good friend, and he delighted in creating most of her first edition covers.
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Gillian Bradshaw, 1982
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671435127
This is the final book in a trilogy of fantasy novels written by the author. It tells the story of King Arthur's downfall, as recounted by his wife Gwynhwyfar (an unfamiliar spelling of her name to most of us). Fred’s graphic cover illustration captures the dramatic magnitude of the mythic event.
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Clive Barker, 1986
Poseidon Press
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671626860
For this first edition of a horror classic, Fred took his inspiration from one of the book’s five stories, “The Body Politic.” A man’s hands have a night-time life of their own. As envisioned in this illustration, they also have a haunting beauty.
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Janwillem Van de Wetering, 1985
G. P. Putnam's Sons
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780345332578
To summarize this Zen-tinged series of eleven short stories set in Kyoto, Fred borrowed imagery from Japanese prints. The sleuth-hero has a predilection for the non-traditional, things like motorcycles and undercover entrapment. Presumably, he also smokes.
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Kevin Starr, 1985
Oxford University Press
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780195034899
Subtitled “California Through the Progressive Era,” this historical reconstruction traces the state’s unique evolution during the early years of the 20th century, with a focus on the Hollywood phenomenon. Fred’s image captures the essence of the time and place.
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Frederick Busch, 1984
David R. Godine Publisher
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780879234935
'Invisible mending'' is the author and narrator’s metaphor for what love can do when applied to the world's sorrows in this half-comic, half-serious meditation on Jewish identity and consciousness. Fred’s first edition jacket illustration can be said to layer metaphor on metaphor.
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Peter Benchley, 1979
Doubleday Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385131728
The author of "Jaws" did it again in this thriller about a reporter and his son who journey to a remote archipelago. Their mission is to unravel the mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle. For the first edition jacket, Fred presented the “big-book-look,” but with a touch of the ominous.
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Stephen Harrigan, 1984
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671449452
Fred’s cover art seems to tell the whole story. The novel takes the reader deep into the mysterious passageways of a Central Texas aquifer…and of the human heart…by superimposing a geological map on the main character’s profile. It promises a thorough probe into both domains.
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Milan Kundera, 1985
Harper Perennial
First Edition, Paperback
ISBN: 9780060912222
Fred’s storybook silhouette perfectly captures the spirit of Kundera’s only play, written in 1971, an homage to Denis Diderot and his late 18th-century novel, “Jacques the Fatalist.” Philosophical paradoxes abound in this highly acclaimed on-the-road tale.
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Michael Upchurch, 1981
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394511504
A fifteen-year-old boy unenthusiastically goes to an all-day Scout Jamboree with his father. Lots of male bonding ensues, not all of it happily. Fred’s straightforward first edition jacket combines multiple profile silhouettes against a transitional airbrushed background, as day turns to night.
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Francoise Dolto, 1972
Doubleday Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385145428
In the same way that Freud interpreted the Oedipus legend, not as a tale of one unfortunate Greed king, but as a pattern, this book attempts to apply events of the Gospels to modern laws of the unconscious. The cover’s haunting medieval face stares at the viewer, seeming to invite the probe.
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Milan Kundera, 1982
Harper & Row
Revised, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780060149871
“The Joke” relates the serious consequences of a frivolous message that a university student sends his girlfriend by postcard. Fred loved nailing any thought in pictures. As is the case with any joke, there’s no need for further elaboration here.
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Jan Morris, 1984
Oxford University Press
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780195034523
This captivating book of essays, mostly on the author’s observations in cities around the world, has become a classic. Fred’s meandering road suggests that unexpected revelations will be found over every hill, and at every twist and turn, by the observant chronicler.
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A. E. Maxwell, 1985
Doubleday Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385192590
Presumably, the goldfish believes that he lives in Paradise, and so does the detective hero in this novel by a pseudonymically-bonded married couple. For the book's first edition jacket, Fred caught the eye with his starkly contrasting warm and cool palette.
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R. R. Knudson, 1983
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780374339678
When the main character is jilted by his girlfriend, he’s inspired to take up body-building, in hopes that an improved physique might help him to win her back. As Fred’s cover illustration succinctly implies, musculature aside, in the end the female calls the shots.
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Thomas McGuane, 1989
Houghton Mifflin
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780395488874
A man inherits a ranch in Montana, finding an opportunity to rediscover his past, perhaps to amend his many failures. Fred’s deceptively simple cover illustration captures the landscape, but the shadows that fall behind the letter forms hint at the passage of time and perspective.
