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The World’s Largest Private Collection of Rare Books on Haiti

Later edition of one of the strangest, God-awful books on Haiti ever written.In 1983, Robert Corbett, a philosophy professor at Webster University, and his wife, Jane, visited Haiti for the first time to do service work. By 2007, he had amassed a collection of 2600 books and 5000 journal articles on Haiti.He is currently in the process of selling the collection in its entirety.I asked Bob to share with Book Patrol readers his thoughts about the collection in general, Haiti, and his book collecting strategy.BP: What made you decide to start the collection?I started the library in 1983 after the...

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