The Gnostic Gospels.

PAGELS, Elaine.

Item Number: 3171

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 dust jacket. Inscribed by the author, “with warmest best wishes! from Elaine Pagels.”

"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).