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. ISBN: 0670025364. 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 E. J. G. --- In Toledano spine 8 / blue cloth / gilt titling on red spine & cover blocks / red topstain / grey Kent endpapers / lacks the dust jacket. Likely published c.1940-63 (though 1933 date appears in book). ML #57.4. --- With inked underlinings and notations to perhaps as many as 25 pages in the New Testament, prior owner's rubberstamping to title page, another prior owner's bookplate pasted to front free endpaper, else a tightly-bound, sound copy.; 12mo (7 to 7-1/2 in. tall); x, 545, (4) pages. Good+ with no dust jacket .

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