Wednesday, February 27, 2019

Dick and Jane recursion


I remember reading Dick and Jane books as a child. In particular, I have long remembered one red Dick and Jane book with a recursive cover illustration: Dick and Jane reading the very same Dick and Jane book whose cover shows Dick and Jane reading the same Dick and Jane book, and so on. 

But I can find no such Dick and Jane book cover. Did I imagine it? Did I dream it? If it doesn't exist, how in the world did I come up with that at such a young age? Maybe I really was born to be a math and computer software guy.

Update (9 March). Found it! Thanks to Richard Tamez. The cover is even red, as I remembered. OK, so it's not quite Dick and Jane. Published in 1948:



And, having found that, I now find this one, too:



And, probably finally, this:



That last was from a seller on eBay. I made an offer and bought the set of three books.

1 comment:

  1. Rodney, I think surely it was Maverick, as I remember them too. However, I do not recall that image. If it was me, I would chalk it up to the things I did while at Jefferson unless I could find proof. Good luck.

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