Sold as reading copies: expect all flaws. Edgewear, wrinkling, toned pages, creased spines. Estate sale find: the gentleman smoked a pipe.


The Jerusalem Bible (JB or TJB) is an EnglishTranslation of the Bible published in 1966 by Darton, Longman & Todd; a Catholice Bible, it includes 73 books: the 39 books shared with the Hebrew Bible, along with the seven deuterocanonical books as the Old Testament, and the 27 books shared by all Christians as the New Testament with copious footnotes and introductions.

Image Books was a Catholic publisher that has been merged into the Crown Publishing Arm of Penguin Random House The books were first published in 1977-78.