Book Jackets: All (by title)
Displaying 289–324 of 616 book jackets
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Russell Hoban, 1983
Summit Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671479275
This strange, metaphysical novel details the mental meanderings of a man who is hospitalized for having a “skewed hypotenuse.” In it, words have alternate meanings, and objects talk. The ancient helmet depicted might be the patient’s partner in conversation, or his own portrait.
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Candice Bergen, 1984
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671252946
Sometimes Fred concluded, especially when commissioned to create a jacket for a biography, that the most appropriate solution was to just present an exquisite photograph. But his creative juices couldn’t resist the opportunity to enhance it with some elegant typography.
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Lois Gould, 1988
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Reissue, Paperback
ISBN: 9780374521806
Fred’s strangely off-kilter format for this series of Lois Gould re-issues seems to aptly reflect the author’s world-view. In this novel, she uses the legend of Eva, Juan, and Isabel Peron to reveal the ways in which illusion is made to create legend.
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Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, 1983
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Reissue, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780374182632
Here was an odd project for Fred, but he certainly created a beauty. This book was first published in England, in 1857. Compared in its wisdom to the "I Ching," the Oracle derives its infallibility from a reliable mathematical plan (supposedly). And it’s all about love.
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Lee Grove, 1984
Faber & Faber
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780571125265
With a flamboyant swirl, an unseen but no doubt glamorous young lady performs her “last dance.” When the value of book-jacket-as-poster is taken into consideration, this great swath of color was surely an attention grabber on the store shelves.
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Gregory McDonald, 1986
Warner Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780892962464
Here’s an anthology of short mysteries that answers the question “How can crime be funny?” Fred’s clown dies laughing on this jacket, as well as on an audio book of four cassettes. Note the knife’s audacious overhang onto the border.
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Jan Morris, 1985
Random House
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394532622
Another book by author Jan Morris, which was shortlisted for the 1985 Booker Prize for Fiction. When it seemed appropriate, Fred loved paying homage to his favorite artists, as here. For this first edition jacket, he presents a variation on one of de Chirico’s 1913 piazza scenes. The mood conveyed exactly suits Morris’s strange travelogue.
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H.H. Dooley, 1981
Doubleday Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385157421
Here’s a political fantasy for our times. A disgraced former president is plotting a comeback, while a terminally ill genius is plotting to assassinate him, confiding his plans only to his psychiatrist. Doctor-patient confidentiality?
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Charles McCarry, 1983
E.P. Dutton
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780525241737
An espionage thriller, Fred’s illustration suggests the complexity in which the hero operates. It’s a world in which the communists are unquestionably the villains. Flashbacks touch on the CIA, the Nazis, the Vietnam War and more.
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Betty Rollin, 1985
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671525972
Betty Rollin was a well known TV journalist before she changed focus to writing. “First You Cry,” an account of her 1975 cancer diagnosis, was a best-seller, followed by “Last Wish,” a book about the issue of assisted suicide for the terminally ill. In confronting the task of creating a cover for the latter book, Fred chose to focus on the universal symbol of comfort for illness and death, with his simple and eloquent painting.
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Christoph Ransmayr, 1990
Grove Press
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780802111678
The hero may or may not be Ovid. The action takes place in ancient and modern times. There’s politics, literature, ecological disaster.... well, it couldn’t have been easy to synthesize. But, Fred certainly managed to make the jacket a beauty.
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A.B. Yehoshua, 1984
Doubleday Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385155748
Yes, the book is about a massively dysfunctional family, and a “late divorce,” but it’s symbolically about “the great debate between Israel and the Golah (exile),” a topic of obsessive concern to the author. The cover illustration synthesizes the theme without belaboring the larger issues.
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Bette Pesetsky, 1991
HarperCollins
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780060183028
This novel is about a poet who, facing a fatal illness, decides to catalogue her life by packing away her journal entries in a series of boxes. For this first edition’s cover, Fred took an unusual step, for him. He set up these props in his office and painted them from life.
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Graham Swift, 1984
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671546137
As a man teaches his son to swim, his wife ruminates about their unhappy marriage and dysfunctional family. Fred’s oblique visual metaphor sets the tone for this series of short stories from England. Note the subtle water ripples as the toy boat goes under.
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Peter Handke, 1978
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780374184971
Fred’s jacket for this novel might be called “minimalist.” His linear isometric drop shadows echo tops and bottoms and rights and lefts. Insider information: the book's translator was Ralph Manheim, who also translated Fred’s “Puss in Boots” under a pseudonym!
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Anita Brookner, 1990
Pantheon Books
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394584461
The author is famous for her Jamesian character studies of women poised on the threshold of life. But in this novel, she portrays of a man torn between the library and the senses. For its first edition jacket, Fred’s portrait seems to capture the title character’s confusion.
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Maureen Freely, 1985
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671506148
The title character in this novel is a wild, drunken American professor, the life of the expatriate/campus party, at a prestigious Turkish university in the 1950s. His madcap capers end in a serious reality check, as Fred’s drowning tail-fins suggest.
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Varley O’Connor, 1991
William Morrow and Company
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780688094447
Set in East Hampton, this novel tells the tale of two dysfunctional families, and their unlikely alliance. For its first edition jacket, Fred tinted a rather dour beach photo, juxtaposing it with a discordant, fanciful, in-your-face hand-lettered panel.
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William Wright, 1986
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671526870
As was often the case when Fred was commissioned to create a cover for a biography, he felt that a straightforward photograph couldn’t be improved upon. However, he couldn’t resist the placement of this photo into a nostalgic airbrushed still life, with his signature type treatment.
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Rosamond Smith, 1987
Simon & Schuster
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671644680
This novel by Joyce Carol Oates, under a pseudonym, was often described as a “taut psychological thriller.” For the first edition jacket, Fred asked a friend to pose for this Jekyll & Hyde-esque double portrait. It reflects the very divergent natures of the two title characters, both psychiatrists, as well as identical twins.
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Stanley G. Crawford, 1972
Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition, Hardcover
ISBN: 9780394481371
This book jacket was one of Fred’s first, and possibly the very first. At this early stage of his career, he was newly enchanted by the prospect of reading every word of the novels he was being asked to present in visual form. He loved this one. The Unguentines were a couple who spent their entire married life on a land-covered barge, steering clear of civilization. He greatly enjoyed finding a way to depict their tiny universe.
