The Bible designed to be read as living literature
Subtitle: the Old and the New Testaments in the King James version.  This edition arranged and edited by Ernest Sutherland Bates.
Contributors: Bates, Ernest Sutherland, 1879-1939,; Goudy, Frederic W. 1865-1947.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1937
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1285
Work titles: Bible. English. Authorized. Selections. 1937
Notes: Maps on lining-papers.

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

"Set in 14-point Deepdene, a contemporary American book face designed by Frederic W. Goudy for the Lanston monotype company, Philadelphia, Pa. ...  The general format was designed by Philip Van Doren Stern."--A note about the design and production of this book, p. [1286]