AuctionsJ. MARK BERTRAND9 Comments

New Auctions: Cambridge, Oxford, Allan's

AuctionsJ. MARK BERTRAND9 Comments

Daniel Doleys has listed a bread-and-butter edition of the KJV, the Cambridge Cameo. It looks like an older edition based on the placement of the words HOLY BIBLE, and that means the French Morocco binding should be the older, more flexible variety. Here's the link:

Cambridge Cameo KJV Bible French Morocco Leather


The intrepid David Farlow, who's beginning to look a lot like the Indiana Jones of vintage Bibles, has some more worthwhile listings to check out. This time, some beautiful red editions:




And just when you thought it couldn't get any better, J. Shelton Smith has listed some more from his collection, too. He's offering a copy of the latest Allan's NIV in brown goatskin, a real beauty I'll be writing about shortly. And he's also listing a jaw-dropping Cambridge facsimile of the Geneva Bible. I'm tempted to bid on that one myself.



UPDATE
Nick Potratz has also listed a trio of interesting editions, including a Nelson Signature:



J. Mark Bertrand is a novelist and pastor whose writing on Bible design has helped spark a publishing revolution. Mark is the author of Rethinking Worldview: Learning to Think, Live, and Speak in This World (Crossway, 2007), as well as the novels Back on Murder, Pattern of Wounds, and Nothing to Hide—described as a “series worth getting attached to” (Christianity Today) by “a major crime fiction talent” (Weekly Standard) in the vein of Michael Connelly, Ian Rankin, and Henning Mankell.

Mark has a BA in English Literature from Union University, an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Houston, and an M.Div. from Heidelberg Theological Seminary. Through his influential Bible Design Blog, Mark has championed a new generation of readable Bibles. He is a founding member of the steering committee of the Society of Bible Craftsmanship, and chairs the Society’s Award Committee. His work was featured in the November 2021 issue of FaithLife’s Bible Study Magazine.

Mark also serves on the board of Worldview Academy, where he has been a member of the faculty of theology since 2003. Since 2017, he has been an ordained teaching elder in the Presbyterian Church in America. He and his wife Laurie life in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.