Telephone, TX: Praxis Publishing, 2008. First Edition. Softcover. Small quarto. xiv + 144pp. Index. From the publisher: "The extraordinary discovery of the Nag Hammadi Library and other early Christian documents over the last century has sparked a revolution of understanding. We can now imagine the possibility of moving from the... More

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1886. First Edition. Hardcover, 8vo, xxviii + 304 pp + 8 pp of adverts. Original blue cloth with gilt title, etc. to spine, blind rules. Spine a bit darkened, spine ends and corners a bit rubbed, previous owner's names, otherwise a sound and internally bright VG+ copy. More

Baltimore, MD: HALGO Inc., 1987. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo. viii+ 250pp. From the publisher: "Egyptian Gnostics of the early centuries of the Christian era created doctrines that were profoundly different from Christian beliefs today. Even in their time the Church declared their doctrines heretical and burned their books. But a.... More

New York, NY: The Viking Press, 1955. Hardcover, no dust jacket, large 8vo, 24 pp of prelims + 436 pp, very good - condition, red cloth, gilt title, etc. to spine, illustrations, moderate wear and soiling to cover, slight rubbing to corners and edges, light soiling to page edges, minor browning to pages. More

NP [ Finland ]: Lux Ferous, 2011. Podium Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. Two books in one volume. 200pp. Black hardcovers with silver title on front cover and spine, ribbon marker. Edition limited to 100 hand numbered copies - this copy INSCRIBED by the author: "Be as a thorn in the... More

Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. lii + 702pp. Brown cloth with white and blue lettering. From the publisher: "This Festschrift honors the life and work of John D. Turner (Charles J. Mach University Professor of Classics and History at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln)... More

Oxford: Oxford University Press / Sandpiper Books, 2000. Reprint. Hardcover. Quarto. xxiv + 953pp + ii adverts. Dark gray cloth with gilt lettering to spine. English, Greek and Arabic indexes. Facsmile reprint of this massive reference first printed by Oxford in 1939. Light shelf rubbing and bumps otherwise appears unused... More

Woodstock VT: Skylight Paths Publishing, 2015. Third Printing. Softcover. Octavo. xvi + 166pp. + publisher's catalog. B&w illustrations, suggested reading list. From the publisher: "The Secret Book of John: The Gnostic Gospel Annotated & Explained decodes the principal themes, historical foundation, and spiritual contexts of this challenging yet fundamental Gnostic... More

London / New York: Continuum, 2009. Revised Edition. Softcover. Octavo. xxxii + 260pp. Illustrated in b&w, maps, appendices, notes, indexes. Revised edition with a new preface. From the publisher: "The first book to challenge The National Geographic version of the Gospel of Judas. "The Thirteenth Apostle" is sure to inspire... More

New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xvi + 308pp. Cream papered boards with red lettering to spine, appendix, bibliography and indexes. From the publisher: "Beyond Gnosticism suggests that scholars approach Valentinians as an early Christian group rather than as a representative of ancient "Gnosticism"-a term notoriously... More

Oxford, England: Basil Blackwell, 1954. Hardcover. 12mo. 100pp + 10 b/w plates. Blue cloth lettered in black on spine. B/w frontis. & plates. Spine ends rubbed, spine slightly darkened, top-edge browned, previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown, previous owner's name on front free endpaper, old tape-stains on verso of one... More

London: J. M. Watkins, 1921. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. xvii + 302 pp.+ 76 pp plates. Original bright blue cloth with gilt tile, author and rules to spine, 76 b/w plates. The scarce first edition of this important comparative study of the symbolism of pre-Christian religions (the "Orphic") of the... More