Vintage 1965 Amplified Bible Zondervan First Printing Red HC Thumb Indexed USA

Condition

Red cloth boards show minimal overall rubbing; spine ends and corners are mildly bumped. Red-tinted text block edges display general fading. Interior pages are age-toned with some mild edge waviness but remain intact, legible, and securely bound.

Description

Title: The Amplified Bible.

Publisher: Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Format: 1965 first printing hardcover edition of the Amplified Bible in English, presenting the complete Amplified Old Testament and Amplified New Testament in a single volume.

Publication details: Copyright page lists 1965 by Zondervan Publishing House, with the Amplified Old Testament Part One 1964 and Part Two 1962 by Zondervan Publishing House, the Amplified New Testament 1958 and the Amplified Gospel of John 1954 by The Lockman Foundation; notation states First Printing • September, 1965—100,000 copies, manufactured in the United States of America, with Library of Congress Catalog Number 65-19500.

Language and topic: English-language Christian Bible containing the Old and New Testaments in the Amplified translation, designed to expand key words and phrases through bracketed explanations and parallel renderings.

Binding: Red textured cloth boards with a darker red faux-leather spine and upper board panel, gilt spine titling reading The Amplified Bible and Zondervan, red-stained outer page edges, and decorative headbands at the spine ends.

Interior: Scripture text printed in double columns with chapter and verse numbers, running heads, cross-references, and extensive bracketed amplification notes throughout; includes a prefatory essay discussing the history and principles of the Amplified translation, followed by Old Testament and New Testament sections and a separate general index.

Special attributes: Early complete Amplified Bible issued by Zondervan Publishing House in cooperation with The Lockman Foundation, first printing identified on the copyright page and produced prior to the adoption of modern ISBN systems.

Identification details: Library of Congress Catalog Number 65-19500, with thumb index tabs along the fore edge labeled GEN. INDEX, OLD TEST., and NEW TEST. to assist in navigating the general index and the two testament sections.

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