The Gnostic Gospels.

PAGELS, Elaine.

Item Number: 108321

New York: Random House, 1979.

Early printing of the author’s groundbreaking work. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “For Peter with best wishes from Elaine Pagels.” Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by R.D. Scudellari.

"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).