The Gnostic Gospels.

PAGELS, Elaine.

Item Number: 1958

New York: Random House, 1979.

First edition of the author’s best-known work. Octavo, original half maroon cloth. An excellent copy in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Inscribed by the author, “with best wishes”. “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]