The Interpreter's One-Volume Commentary on the Bible, edited by Charles M. Laymon, published by Abingdon Press, Nashville and New York, copyright 1971. Regular edition hardcover in olive cloth with gilt spine decoration, no dust jacket. Introduction and commentary for each book of the Bible including the Apocrypha, with general articles, chronology, measures and money, scripture and subject indexes, and 16 maps. Over 1,300 pages. Used in good condition: clean, unmarked pages in the areas shown, light rubbing at the board edges and corners, and age toning to the page edges.

Contributors include Peter R. Ackroyd, Howard Clark Kee, Victor Paul Furnish, Leander E. Keck, Jacob Milgrom, Roland E. Murphy, George A. Buttrick and many other leading mid-century scholars. Quotations are from the Revised Standard Version.

A standard desk reference for pastors, seminary students, Sunday school teachers and anyone who wants the whole Bible covered in a single book. Marbled endpapers; printed and bound by the Parthenon Press in Nashville.