The Gnostic Gospels.
"Ignorance, not sin, is what involves a person in suffering": First Edition of The Gnostic Gospels; Inscribed by Elaine Pagels
The Gnostic Gospels.
PAGELS, Elaine.
$475.00
Item Number: 147107
New York: Random House, 1979.
First edition of the author’s groundbreaking work. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the half-title page. Near fine in a very good price-clipped 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).
