Author: GOODSPEED, EDGAR J.; SMITH, J. M. POWIS (EDITORS)
Title: The Short Bible: An American Translation (Modern Library #57. 4)
Description: New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1940-63]. Hardcover. An edited version of the Holy Bible in a Modern Library edition, containing ".those portions of the Bible which have most meaning for modern life." Contains portions of both the Old and New Testaments. With Table of Contents and one-page index (at rear). Edited by Edgar J. Goodspeed and J. M. Powis Smith, and translated by the editors and others. With a preface by Goodspeed. --- In Toledano spine 8 / red cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / lacks the dust jacket. Likely published c.1940-63 (though 1933 date appears in book). ML #57.4. --- With binder's glue bleed-through at endpapers, else an unmarked, tightly-bound, sound copy.; 12mo (7 to 7-1/2 in. tall); x, 545, (4) pages. Very Good+ with no dust jacket .

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