Copenhagen: Prostant Apud Munksgaard, 1965. First English language edition. Hardcover. Small quarto. 294 pp. Original red cloth with white title, etc. to spine. A scarce scholarly study. Boards lightly chafed with a bit of discoloration to cloth, spine darkened, edges lightly rubbed, corners bumped. Paper slightly browned, but text is... More about Studies in Manichaeism
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 about The Luminous Gospels. Thomas, Mary Magdalene, and Philip
London: British Museum, 1935. First edition. Hardcover. Small quarto. x + 74pp. Red cloth lettered in gilt on spine. Index. Five plates. Spine ends chafed, spine faded, corners of boards bumped, slight foxing to page-edges, prelims & last pages, otherwise a solid, internally-clean near-VG copy (no dust jacket). More about Fragments of an Unknown Gospel and other Early Christian Papyri
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 about Christian Platonists of Alexandria; Eight Lectures Preached Before the University of Oxford in...
New York, NY: Riverhead Books, 1997. Softcover. Large octavo. 258pp. A tight, clean near-Fine copy. More about Omens of the Millennium: The Gnosis of Angels, Dreams, and Resurrection
New York, NY: The Viking Press, 1957. Reprint. Hardcover. Large octavo. xxiv + 436pp. Red cloth gilt-lettered on spine. Bibliography. B/w plates. Spine ends chafed, bumps to corners of boards, tape-marks to boards & free endpapers, otherwise a solid, internally-clean near-VG copy in Good+ dust jacket (dust jacket lightly worn... More about The Dead Sea Scrolls
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 about The Dead Sea Scrolls
NP [ Finland ]: Lux Ferous, 2011. Proselyte Edition. Softcover. Small octavo. Two books in one volume. 200pp. Black wrappers with white title on front cover. Edition limited to 100 hand numbered copies - this copy INSCRIBED "Ave Sophia" and signed by the author [as "Xner"] on inside front cover... More about Order of the Skeleton Key, Being Comprised of the Gnostic Texts: Kosmology. [ Luciferian...
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 copies - this copy INSCRIBED by the author: "Be as a thorn in the side of... More about Order of the Skeleton Key, Being Comprised of the Gnostic Texts: Kosmology. [ Luciferian...
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. xii + 180pp. Black textured papered boards gilt-lettered on spine. Bibliography & index. B/w plates. Minor scuff to rear board, page-edges age-toned, else a clean VG copy (no dust jacket). More about The Gnostics
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 about Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World. Essays in Honour of John D. Turner
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1958. First American edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xvi + 196pp. Black cloth lettered in gilt on spine. "A Comprehensive and up-to-date Survery of Ten Years' Work on the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Community which owned them. The Haskell Lectures 1956--1957." Index. B/w plates. Map endpapers. Top-edge... More about The Ancient Library of Qumran and Modern Biblical Studies
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1962. Reprint. Hardcover. Quarto. xxiv + 953pp + ii adverts. Green publisher's cloth with gilt lettering to black spine label. English, Greek and Arabic indexes. Facsmile reprint of this massive reference first printed by Oxford in 1939. Cloth a trifle faded at spine and edges, light... More about Coptic Dictionary
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 about The Secret Book of John: The Gnostic Gospels Annotated & Explained; SkyLight Illuminations...
Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo.xiv + 212pp + adverts. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and upper board, bibliography & indexes. Illustrated in b&w. From the publisher: "This monograph represents a critical juncture in Thomas studies since it dispels the belief that the Gospel... More about Seek to See Him. Ascent & Vision Mysticism in the Gospel of Thomas; ( Supplements to...
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 about The Thirteenth Apostle. What the Gospel of Judas Really Says
Burke, London, 1958. Hardcover. Octavo. 432pp. Textured papered boards. Index. B/w plates. Exploration of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Page-edges lightly browned, previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise a solid, clean VG copy in Good+ dust jacket (dust jacket price-clipped, scattered insect-holing along edges & on spine & rear panels). More about The Riddle of the Scrolls
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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 about Beyond Gnosticism [ Myth, Lifestyle, and Society in the School of Valentius
New York, NY: MacMillan, 1956. Hardcover. Octavo. xii + 196pp. Red cloth gilt-lettered on spine. Index. B/w plates. Previous owner's name blind-stamped on front free endpaper, otherwise a clean VG+ copy in VG dust jacket (dust jacket very slightly discolored). More about The Jewish Sect of Qumran and the Essenes: New Studies on the Dead Sea Scrolls
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 about The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Preliminary Survey
New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2005. First UK Softcover Edition. Softcover. Large octavo. xviii + 294pp. Bibliography & index. B/w illustrations. A fascinating study of "the lost Christianities" - those early form of Christianity that were suppressed, reformed, or forgotten, and thus have largely vanished from the historical record... More about Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew
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 about Orpheus - The Fisher. Comparative Studies in Orphic and Early Christian Cult Symbolism
Rochester, VT: Bear & Co., 2003. Softcover. Large octavo. xx + 394pp. Glossary & index. Color plates, b/w text illustrations. Signed by the author on title-page. A sharp, clean near-Fine copy. More about The Mystery of the Copper Scroll of Qumran: The Essene Record of the Treasure of Akhenaten
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. viii + 360pp. Original dark grey cloth with gilt lettering to spine, indexes. The second volume of two on the subject, this one includes "a selection of original Gnostic material, drawn partly from the Nag Hammadi Gnostic Library and partly from the... More about Gnosis, A Selection of Gnostic Texts. II Coptic and Mandean Sources [ 2. Coptic and Mandaic Sources
New York: Three Rivers Press, [Copyright 2001]. First Paperback Edition. Softcover. Large octavo. vi + 327pp + advert. Endnotes, bibliography, b&w illustrations, index. From the publisher: "Drawing on modern scholarship, the authors of the international bestseller "The Jesus Mysteries" decode the secret teachings of the original Christians for the first... More about Jesus and the Lost Goddess
