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Originally Posted by slidekellyslide
I'm going to go with "Didn't come with one". Simply because of the sheer number of them out there and not one has a dust jacket. Also one might think with a large number of signed presentation copies that they would be held in high esteem and the owner would not have tossed the jacket but all of the signed ones are also without the jacket.
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Dan
Babe Ruth's Own Book of Baseball in 1928 had a similar signed limited edition (I believe of 500, but fewer may have been actually signed). Many of the signed copies come up for auction or are for sale, and virtually none have had the DJ (there might have been one or two that did). Collectors just didn't keep them generally, certainly until after World War II.
The Ruth Putnam of course does exist in jacket.
I'll continue the hunt, and I am confident one day I will get conclusive proof of a dust jacket. Unless I don't.
