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...
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...
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).
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.
New York, NY: Riverhead Books, 1997. Softcover. Large octavo. 258pp. A tight, clean near-Fine copy.
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....
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...
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.
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...
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...
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).
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)...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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).
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...
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).
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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