Pistis Sophia: A Gnostic Miscellany: Being for the Most Part Extracts from the Books of the Saviour, to Which are Added Excerpts from a Cognate Literature
by MEAD, G R S
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John M Watkins 1955. Octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, lxix + 325pp, VG (light bruising & rubbing to extrems, light chafing & soiling to boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, gift inscription in ink & prev. bookseller's sm ink stamp to ffep, light foxing to prelims & terminals, rough cutting to edges of some prelim pages)
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- Pistis Sophia: A Gnostic Miscellany: Being for the Most Part Extracts from the Books of the Saviour, to Which are Added Excerpts from a Cognate Literature
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- MEAD, G R S
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- Hardcover
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- John M Watkins 1955
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- religion theology theosophy gnostic literature Pistis Sophia
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- Gilt
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- Octavo
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