I Never Had It Made

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A hardcover book (a) with original dust jacket (b) of the autobiography by Jackie Robinson, I Never Had It Made. The hardback book is clothbound in solid, dark blue book cloth. In the bottom right corner of the front cover are the initials “J.R.”, stamped in gold foil. Aligned horizontally along the spine is large, stamped gold foil text of the book title [I Never Had It Made], authors [Jackie Robinson as told to Alfred Duckett], and publisher [Putnam]. The interior pages feature black ink on white pages and include a foreword with the final numbered page at 287. The printed paper book jacket features a grey and navy colored background with large white text on the front that reads JACKIE / ROBINSON / An Autobiography / I / NEVER / HAD / IT / MADE / AS TOLD TO ALFRED DUCKETT].

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