Item #62451 Gnosis: The Nature and History of Gnosticism. Kurt RUDOLPH, Robert McLachlan Wilson.

Gnosis: The Nature and History of Gnosticism.

San Francisco, CA: Harper & Row, 1983. First American edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. xii + 412pp. Light blue cloth lettered in dark blue on spine; dark blue Orobouros design on upper board. Bibliography & index. B/w plates. Fold-out map at rear. From the publisher: "Presents a readable and appealing introduction to what otherwise might seem an inaccessible religion of late antiquity." Top edge darkened and dusty, small inked star on bottom of text block, fore-edge and pages a bit toned, small puncture in cloth at mid-spine edge of rear board has left a half inch crescent shaped tear to cloth and tiny holes to endpapers (sounds worse than it is!). Light damp spot to lower rear board. Still, a tight, clean about VG copy in near VG dust jacket (Dust jacket a bit shelf worn with some tidy tape repair on reverse side, corresponding hole [see stab -mark described above] - not clipped). Item #62451
ISBN: 0060670177

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