Item #71550 The Bible Designed to be Read as Literature. Edited and Arranged by Ernest Sutherland Bates. With an Introduction by Laurence Binyon. BIBLE.
The Bible Designed to be Read as Literature. Edited and Arranged by Ernest Sutherland Bates. With an Introduction by Laurence Binyon.
The Bible Designed to be Read as Literature. Edited and Arranged by Ernest Sutherland Bates. With an Introduction by Laurence Binyon.
The Bible Designed to be Read as Literature. Edited and Arranged by Ernest Sutherland Bates. With an Introduction by Laurence Binyon.
The Bible Designed to be Read as Literature. Edited and Arranged by Ernest Sutherland Bates. With an Introduction by Laurence Binyon.

The Bible Designed to be Read as Literature. Edited and Arranged by Ernest Sutherland Bates. With an Introduction by Laurence Binyon.

London: William Heinemann, no date [circa 1930s]. [Bible] FINELY BOUND, first edition (no edition stated- reprints are clearly marked). Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xxxii; 1244. Title page in red and black, printed on bible paper. colour-printed double-page map of Syria and Palestine to front, similar map of the Mediterranean Basin at rear. Exquisitely bound by BAYNTUN-RIVIERE in full crushed navy morocco, with raised bands, two-line gilt fillet, marbled endpapers, inner gilt dentelles, a.e.g. A fine copy. Mostly follows the King James version. This example is from the collection of award-winning Ian Fleming bibliographer Jon Gilbert; the title was used as a novelty device for Kingsley Amis' Book of Bond, a handbook for spies issued with a reversible jacket, where the inside was printed as 'The Bible Designed to be read as Literature'. Item #71550

Price: £375.00

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