The Nag Hammadi Library in English.

First edition of this collection of early Christian and Gnostic texts discovered in Egypt in 1945. Octavo, original publisher's green cloth. Boldly signed and dated by Elaine Pagels on the half-title page, "Elaine Pagels September 23 2025." Elaine Pagels is an American religious historian and scholar best known for her groundbreaking work on early Christianity and Gnosticism. Her influential book The Gnostic Gospels (1979), which won both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, reexamines early Christian texts discovered at Nag Hammadi, revealing the theological diversity and gender dynamics suppressed by the formation of orthodox Christianity. Very good in a very good dust jacket with rubbing to the extremities and tape markings to the inside jacket flaps and endpapers. Translated into English under the editorship of James M. Robinson. Ownership inscription to the front free endpaper. Uncommon signed and inscribed.