Bai the Sorcerer.
by (SORCERY: PAPUA NEW GUINEA) KEYSSER, Chr
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- first
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- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Brisbane: Lutheran Mission Tract, 1925. First edition (reprinted in 1986). Octavo. 22 pp. Publisher's light orange wrappers with a photographic illustration of Bai on the front and a map on the rear. Small yellow sticker to upper margin of front wrapper. very small closed tear to margin of first leaf. Only 8 copies recorded by OCLC. A very good copy.Scarce booklet on the evangelical work of Christian Keyser, Lutheran missionary of the Neuendettelsau Mission Society, in New Guinea, and his conversion of Bai, an individual he publicly accuses of sorcery and then converts to Christianity. Keysser first met Bai in 1905. This book details his long-suffering (though finally fruitfull) attempts to convert the sorcerer Bai. "Soon after the first few lessons he came to my room to make a confession... So I listened. That WAS a confession. He named eleven women with whom he had committed adultery besides many "minor matters", seven murders. over thirty verses of witchcraft, innumerable thefts, and other thing" (p. 6).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 76017
- Title
- Bai the Sorcerer.
- Author
- (SORCERY: PAPUA NEW GUINEA) KEYSSER, Chr
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Lutheran Mission Tract
- Place of Publication
- Brisbane
- Date Published
- 1925
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About the Seller
Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA
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Portland, Oregon
About Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA
Nat DesMarais Rare Books specializes in books on the Sierra Nevada (particularly Yosemite), the Mojave, and California books in general. We also deal in the art of the American West, voyages and travels and nineteenth century literature.
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