The Bible, designed to be read as living literature.
Subtitle: The Old and New Testaments in the King James version, 1936.
By: This edition arranged and edited by E. S. Bates
Contributors: Bates, Ernest Sutherland, 1879-1939
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 1943
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1285
Work titles: Bible. English. Authorized. Selections. 1943
Notes: Maps on lining-papers

"In the case of Proverbs, Job, Ecclesiastes, and the Song of songs ... the Revised version is used ... Genealogies and repetitions are omitted, as well as the whole of Chronicles, the minor Epistles, and similar unimportant passages"--p. [ii]