The Gnostic Gospels.

PAGELS, Elaine.

Item Number: 29007

New York: Random House, 1979.

First edition. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by Elaine Pagels on the half title page. Small name on the front free endpaper, near fine in a near fine dust jacket.

"The first major and eminently readable book on gnosticism benefiting from the discovery in 1945 of a collection of Gnostic Christian texts at Nag Hammadi in Egypt" (The New York Times Book Review).