The Bible designed to be read as living literature
Subtitle: the Old and the New Testaments in the King James version.
By: This edition arranged and edited by Ernest Sutherland Bates
Contributors: Bates, Ernest Sutherland, 1879-1939
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1949
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1285
Work titles: Bible. English. Authorized. Selections. 1949
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."