Haiti: Books For Sale

List as of May 9, 2008

Bob Corbett 1419 Tamm Ave.
St. Louis, MO 63139
(314) 647-6704

The list (List: Main-stacks -- G) has 100 items offered. They are numbered. As items sell I will removed them, but you can just tell me the NUMBER of the book you want. This is list G, but the numbers are from my own library, so just give me the number of the book itself. If you wish to include the author as well, so there is no confusion.

If you have questions, don't hesitate to contact me

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Shipping is $3.00 for the first book and $.50 for each additional book, book rate. There will also be a 75 cent charge for each mailing for delivery confirmation. Insurance or priority shipping are extra, please ask. Delivery outside the U.S. will be arranged. A few of the books are quite heavy and can't be shipped for the $3.00 normal fee. If books are heavy I will have to charge extra shipping.

• # 1621z    Arthur, Charles     HAITI: A GUIDE TO THE PEOPLE, POLITICS AND CULTURE    NY: Interlink Publishing Company, 2001. Paper bound like new. See Bob Corbett's review of the book by clicking on the title.
  • $31.00
  
  
  
• # 1626z    Arthur, Charles and Michael Dash editors    LIBETE: A HAITI ANTHOLOGY    Princeton, NJ: Marcus Wiener Publishers, Inc., paper bound. Very fine condition, 352 pages. Many essays, topics include: revolution, dictator, environment, poverty, refugees, diaspora, Voodoo and literature.
  • $24.00
  
  
  
• # 1641z    Austin, Henry Judge     PORT AU PRINCE OR PORT AU PRESIDENT    New England Magazine, 1911. The Haiti story is on pages 615-627. This is a pulp magazine in good condition. Scarce item.
  • $12.00
  
  
  
• # 1684z    Bean, Theodore D. D. D. S.     COME EAT: THE ADVENTURES OF AN AMERICAN VOLUNTEER DENTIST IN HAITI    Chapel Hill, NC: Professional Press, 1999. Paper bound, fine condition, 99 pages.
  • $6.50
  
  
  
• # 116z    Bemis, Samuel Flagg     A DIPLOMATIC HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES    NY: Henry Holt and Co, 1942. Worn but good condition. Very useful section on Haiti. 934 page with extensive index.
  • $19.00
  
  
  
• # 1682z    Bogosian, Eric     MALL    NY: Simon Schuster, 2000. Paper bound advance uncorrected proofs. 246 pages. Like new. 'Mall' is set in a generic shopping mall in an unnamed, generic American suburb. It becomes an intersection for five different troubled, angry, and dissolute characters who interact with each other with unexpected results. Bogosian shifts his perspective from character to character as the harrowing story unfolds. The writing is clever, vivid, and infused with very dark humor, sex, and violence. Virtually no detail, no quirk in this horrifying landscape escapes Bogosian's notice and all is woven together in this impressive, frightful work" (Ted Leventhal). A stunning achievement from the acclaimed, cult-status performance artist, actor, and playwright of "Talk Radio", "SubUrbia", and "Griller". One of the central characters is a Haitian immigrant.
  • $5.00
  
  
  
• # 1602z    Boone, Lee     NEW AND RARE CUBAN AND HAITIAN TERRESTRIAL ISOPODA    Bulletin of The American Musueum of Natural History. LXVI,Article V, 1934. Disbound article from the journal, published independently in wraps. 32 pages, lots of illustrations. Nice quality.
  • $11.00
  
  
  
• # 1678z    Brand, W.     IMPRESSIONS OF HAITI   The Hague: Mouton and Co., 1965. Brand was a professor of social sciences at the University of Leiden. This is not a typical "overview," but done with lots of data and scholarly attention. 76 pages and topics include population, urban/rural population, mining, manufacturing, construction, education, housing, social trends and more. Fascinating little book. Soft bound in fine condition.
  • $23.00
  
  
  
• # 1686z    Danticat, Edwidge editor     THE BUTTERFLY'S WAY: VOICES FROM THE HAITIAN DYASPORA IN THE UNITED STATES    NY: Soho Press, 2001. Paper bound, 251 pages, very fine. Features contributions from more than a dozen Haitian writers.
  • $5.50
  
  
  
• # 294z     Denis, Renee Roosevelt     TO LIVE IN PARADISE    Ft. Bragg, CA: Lost Coast Press, 1996. Paper bound, fine condition, 396 pages. Includes chapters on her life in Haiti. Mainly she lives in various former French colonies.
  • $22.00
  
  
  
• # 119z     Deveze, Lily     A BRIEF GUIDE TO FRENCH HISTORY    Paris: G. Castel, no date. Paper bound on lovely slick paper with nice b/w photos. 79 pages.
  • $5.50
  
  
  
• # 107z    Driver, Tom F.     THE MAGIC OF RITUAL: OUR NEED FOR LIBERATING RITES THAT TRANSFORM OUR LIVES & OUR COMMUNITIES    San Francisco: Harper Collins, Publishers, 1991. 270pp, index. This is an examination of the role of ritual and ceremony in the lives of communities. Drawing on experience in Haiti Korea, New Guinea, and Japan, he points out that ritual, when alive is playful, dramatic and magical . It transforms tradition while retaining it, transforms us while sustaining basic personality. Paper bound, like new.
  • $12.00
  
  
  
• # 1651z    THE EMERGING DRUG THREAT FROM HAITI    Published copy of Hearing in House of Representatives subcommittee on drug trade, April 12, 2000. 136 pages, fine condition.
  • $26.75
  
  
  
• # 1625z    Farmer, Paul     INFECTIONS AND INEQUALITIES: THE MODERN PLAGUES    Berkely, CA: University of California Press, 1999. Hard bound in original dust jacket, like new. 375 pages. Paul Farmer has battled AIDS in rural Haiti and deadly strains of drug-resistant tuberculosis in the slums of Peru. A physician-anthropologist with more than fifteen years in the field, Farmer writes from the front lines of the war against these modern plagues and shows why, even more than those of history, they target the poor. This "peculiarly modern inequality" that permeates AIDS, TB, malaria, and typhoid in the modern world, and that feeds emerging (or re-emerging) infectious diseases such as Ebola and cholera, is laid bare in Farmer's harrowing stories of sickness and suffering.Challenging the accepted methodologies of epidemiology and international health, he points out that most current explanatory strategies, from "cost-effectiveness" to patient "noncompliance," inevitably lead to blaming the victims. In reality, larger forces, global as well as local, determine why some people are sick and others are shielded from risk. Yet this moving account is far from a hopeless inventory of insoluble problems. Farmer writes of what can be done in the face of seemingly overwhelming odds, by physicians determined to treat those in need. Infections and Inequalities weds meticulous scholarship with a passion for solutions--remedies for the plagues of the poor and the social maladies that have sustained them.
  • $21.00
  
  
  
• # 1643z    Fatton, Robert, Jr.     HAITI'S PREDATORY REPUBLIC: THE UNENDING TRANSITION TO DEMOCRACY    The collapse of the Duvalier dictatorship gave rise to hope among Haitians for a democratic journey to economic development, political renewal and social peace. The reality has not been so sanguine. This text analyzes the vicissitudes of politics in Haiti from the demise of Duvalier to 2001. Click on title to see a much longer review by Bob Corbett. Paper bound in fine condition, signed by author.
  • $27.00
  
  
  
• # 1652     HAITI    Pam American Union, 1954. Love small booklet overviewing Haiti with b/w photos and text. Fine condition.
  • $26.00
  
  
  
• # 1650z    HAITI: ANNUAL REPORT OF THE FISCAL REPRESENTATIVE FO RTHE FISCAL YEAR OCTOBER 1936 - SEPTEMBER 1937    209 pages. Paper bound, worn but good condition. Some large fold-out charts and lots of economic data and charts.
  • $23.50
  
  
  
• # 1632z    HAITI INSIGHT    Vol 1, # 1 of this magazine format work. May 1989. Lead story is the Anatomy of a Failed Coup. Other stories on Namphy, Avril, and boat people.
  • $6.00
  
  
  
• # 279z    Hampson, Norman     THE FIRST EUROPEAN REVOLUTION 1776 - 1815    Norwich, England: Jarrold and Sons, 1969. Paper bound in very good condition, 214 pages with index and lots of b/w photos. ."The most significant changes during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic period were in the realm of ideas. The French Revolution ended the era of ar istocratic conservtism, enlightened rationalism, and sentimental deism."
  • $6.50
  
  
  
• # 1603z    Hawkins, Joseph N.    THE THREE SONS OF NOAH AND THE 3 NEGROES OF GREATNESS    Albany, NY. 12 page individually published piece that concludes with the argument about three "notable" black men, Toussaint is one of those three. No date. Very good condition.
  • $7.00
  
  
  
• # 1642z    Phillips Auctioneer, New York     THE "HISPANOLA" COLLECTION OF THE POSTAL HISTORY & STAMPS OF HAITI    This is an auction catalogue for a sale. 35 pages of photos of the offerings and descriptions of each stamp or piece.
  • $14.00
  
  
  
• # 278z   Hobsbawm, E.J.     THE AGE OF REVOLUTION, 1789 - 1848    NY: Mentor Books, 1965. Paper bound. 416 pages with index. Very good condition. Studies the social revolutions that swept over first Europe and then the world from the French Revolution of 1789 through the transformational year of 1848.
  • $5.50
  
  
  
• # 1658z    Kidder, Tracy     MOUNTAIN BEYOND MOUNTAINS   NY: Random House, 2003. Uncorrected proofs, paper bound, 317 pages including bibliography. Fine condition. The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a man who would cure the world.
  • $15.00
  
  
  
• # 1630z    Kretchik, Walter E. Robert F. Baumann and John T. Fishel    INVASION, INTERVENTION, "INTERVASION": A CONCISE HISTORY OF THE U.S. ARMY IN OPERATION UPHOLD DEMOCRACY    Fort Leeavenworth, KS: U.S. Army Command and General Staff College Press, 1998. Paper bound book in fine condition. Historical context of American intervention; planning for "intervasion" and the execution phase of Operation Uphold Democracy. Measuring Army effectiveness during the operation. Illustrated. In 273 pages, including seven appendices, glossary, select bibliography and index.
  • $35.00
  
  
  
• # 1607z    THE HAITI PILOT PROJECT: PHASE ONE 1947-1949    Paris: UNESCO, 1951. 84 pages, soft bound, lots of b/w photos. Very good condition.
  • $37.00
  
  
  
• # 106z    Krehm, William     DEMOCRACIES AND TYRANNIES OF THE CARIBBEAN     Westport, CT: Lawrence Hill and Co., 1984. One chapter is on Haiti, traces the political fate of Haiti from the U.S. occupation to the coming of Duvalier. Hard bound in dust jacket, very fine. 244 pages.
  • $13.00
  
  
  
• # 109    Lapierre, Dominique     THE CITY OF JOY     Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Co., Inc., 1985. Not about Haiti, but about a slum in Calcutta, called the city of Joy. It is so much like Cite Soleil, that this is a good book to read as background if one is interested in Cite Soleil. 519 pages. in very good condition.
  • Hard bound in dust jacket, very good. $13.00
  • Paperback, very good condition. $7.50
  
  
  
• # 1679z    Lawrence, Vina     HONEYMOON IN HAITI    LOVE SHORT STORIES pages 4-18. Vol. 13m # 1. 1944. This is a short story magazine, pulp magazine, out of Toronto. This is the entire edition which includes the Haiti story. Nice condition.
  • $12.00
  
  
  
• # 1624z    Lefebvre, Claire     CREOLE GENESIS AND THE ACQUISITION OF GRAMMAR: THE CASE OF HAITIAN CREOLE    Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. An examination of creole genesis, showing how mechanisms from source languages show themselves in creole.This study focuses on the cognitive processes involved in creole genesis: relexification, reanalysis, and direct levelling. The role of these processes is documented by a detailed comparison of Haitian creole with its two major contributing languages, French and Fongbe, to illustrate how mechanisms from source languages show themselves in creole.This study focuses on the cognitive processes involved in creole genesis: relexification, reanalysis, and direct levelling. The role of these processes is documented by a detailed comparison of Haitian creole with its two major contributing languages, French and Fongbe, to illustrate how mechanisms from source languages show themselves in creole.This study focuses on the cognitive processes involved in creole genesis - relexification, reanalysis and direct levelling - processes which the author demonstrates play a significant role in language genesis and change in general. Dr Lefebvre argues that the creators of pidgins/creoles use the parametric values of their native languages in establishing those of the language that they are creating and the semantic principles of their own grammar in concatenating morphemes and words in the new language. This theory is documented on the basis of a uniquely detailed comparison of Haitian creole with its contributing French and West African languages. Summarizing more than twenty years of funded research, the author examines the input of adult, as opposed to child, speakers and resolves the problems in the three main approaches, universalist, superstratist and substratist, which have been central to the recent debate on creole development.Preface, List of abbreviations, 1. The problem of creole genesis and linguistic theory, 2. Cognitive processes involved in creole genesis, 3. The research methodology, 4. Functional category lexical entries involved in nominal structure, 5. The preverbal markers encoding relative tense, mood and aspect, 6. Pronouns, 7. Functional category lexical entries involved in the structure of the clause, 8. The determiner and the structure of the clause, 9. The syntactic properties of verbs, 10. Are derivational affixes relexified? 11. The concatenation of words in compounds, 12. Parameters, 13. Evaluation of the hypothesis, 14. Theoretical consequences, Appendices, Notes, References, Indexes. .this book is a model of careful argumentation, including clear description of the methods and assumptions involved in the underlying research.the book is admittedly written for those with special interest in pidgin and creole languages. Hard bound in original dust jacket, like new.
  • $93.00
  
  
  
• # 117z    Lefebvre, Georges     THE COMING OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION    Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1973. Paper bound in very good condition, 233 pages with index. Translated from the French. The Vichy Government destroyed most of the copies of the original French edition after the outbreak of WWII. The author presents a picture of what happened in France during the year 1789 - the first year of the French Revolution. Some of the contents include: The Aristocratic Revolution; The Bourgeois Revolution and The Peasant Revolution. Very useful background information for the war with St. Domingue.
  • $8.50
  
  
  
• # 291z     Lydon, James G.     PIRATES, PRIVATEERS, AND PROFITS    Upper Saddle River, NJ: The Gregg Press, 1970. Hard bound in dust jacket, Very fine condition. 303 pages with index. Important study of the structure of pirates vs privateers.
  • $65.00
  
  
  
• # 284z    Luke, Sir Harry     CARIBBEAN CIRCUIT    London: Nicholson and Watson, 1952. Hard bound, 262 pp., frontispiece, photographs, endpaper maps, index. Fine condition. 31 page chapter on Haiti.
  • $14.00
  
  
  
• # 1644z    Marvin, George     ASSASSINATION AND INTERVENTION IN HAITI    The Worker's Word Journal, Vol. XXXI, 404-410, 1916. Very early and critical review of the U.S. occupation of Haiti. Quite scarce. This is the entire issue of the journal for Feb. 1916. Very good condition.
  • $18.00
  
  
  
• # 1623z    McClintock, William R. and Alexander G. Monroe    OPERATION GTMO: 1 OCTOBER 1991 - 1 JULY 1993 -- UNCLASSIFIED EDITION    Norfolk, VA.: U.S. Atlantic Command, 1988. Large 9x11 paper bound book. 234 pages on slick heavy paper. Reports, data, testimony, maps, photos. Fine condition. This is the unclassified edition of the classified study which was prepared for limited distribution in October 1993. The authors, CAPT Alexander G. "Sandy" Monroe and I, were assigned to the Naval Reserve Naval History Volunteer Training Unit 0615, and since August 1991 supported the Director, Public Affairs, U.S. Atlantic Command and U.S. Atlantic Fleet. In February 1992, five months after the initiation of Operation GTMO, Maj Gen Raymund E. O'Mara, USAF, Deputy Commander in Chief U.S. Atlantic Command, directed this study, including the documentation of the command's joint operations. We assumed that each of USCINCLANT's component forces, including U.S. Army Forces Command and Air Combat Command, as well as the Coast Guard, and other federal agencies would document in more detail their own support of Operation GTMO. As noted in the original preface to the classified edition, this study was only an initial historical analysis of the operations that might have some utility for future planning purposes. Impressed with the study's potential, on 1 June 1994, ADM Paul D. Miller, USN, CINCUSACOM, recommended it to all the military and interagency representatives attending their first meeting to plan for resurgent Haitian migrant operations, which were subsequently referred to as Operation Sea Signal under Joint Task Force 160. The study also served as a stepping stone for more extensive, analytical, and diverse after action reports for USACOM operations in the Caribbean. Using a team concept, Maj Gen Michael C. Short, USAF, Director Joint Training (J7), initiated a joint after action report on Operation Uphold Democracy (June 1995). In the following year, USACOM contracted OC, Incorporated to prepare a multimedia - pamphlet, video, and CD-ROM - after action report, Migrant Camp Operations: The Guantanamo Experience (May 1996). The contractor also produced a more detailed multimedia study on USACOM operations in Haiti ~ Uphold Democracy (May 1997). The command historian and assigned reservists played an important role in preparing chronologies and collecting documentation that were incorporated into the CD-ROM materials. With the onset of the Caribbean operations, I deferred efforts to publish an unclassified edition of the historical study on Operation GTMO. Thanks to the hard work and determination of LTC Paul V. Tommasi, USAFR, who was recalled to active duty to support the history office, this reformatted, edited, and revised unclassified edition finally came to light. He was also the driving force behind publishing another special study, Establishment of U.S. Atlantic Commmand, 1 October 1993 (May 1997). 234 pages.
  • $79.00
  
  
  
• # 1604z    Nicholls, David     ECONOMIC DEPENDENCE AND POLITICAL AUTONOMY: THE HAITIAN EXPERIENCE    Occasional Paper Series, No. 9. Center for Deveoping Area Studies McGill University, Montreal , 1974. 45 pages, very good condition, and very scarce item by a noted historical scholar.
  • $21.00
  
  
  
• # 1601z    Orizio, Riccardo     LOST WHITE TRIBES: THE END OF PRIVILEGE AND THE LAST COLONIALS IN SRI LANKA, JAMAICA, BRAZIL, HAITI, NAMIBIA AND GUADALOUPE    NY: The Free Press, 2001. Paper bound, like new, 269 pages. This impressive journalistic work chronicles of the lost white tribes of the colonial world, many on the verge of extinction. Includes the Confederados of Brazil who fled the American South during the Civil War, Dutch Burghers of Sri Lanka, Matignons Blancs of Guadeloupe, Dutch descendants in Jamaica, Poles of Haiti, Basters of Southwest Africa. 55 pages section is on "Papa Doc's Poles."
  • $14.00
  
  
  
• # 1611z    Orton, James K.     THE SECRET CHART (OR: TREASURE HUNTING IN HAYTI)    Philadelphia: David McKay, 1902. Hard bound novel, some b/w illustrations. Good condition. Novel of intrigue. Very scarce book. 237 pages, youth novel. Paper bound, quite nice condition for 1902!
  • $27.00
  
  
  
• # 280z    Palacios, Alvar Gonzalez     THE AGE OF LOUIS XVI    London: Paul Hamlyn, 1969. Hard bound in dust jacket. Exquisite color photos of the splendor of the age. Fine condition. Out of Print. Parallell trends of Romanticism period and the Reight of Louis XVI & Marie ANtoinette are well shown by the splendid illustrations and by the author who describes not only painting, sculpture and architecture. Also silver, tapestries and textiles, porcelain and furniture - in 158 pages with full color throughout.
  • $22.50
  
  
  
• # 1622z    Pressoir, Charles Fernand George Baussan Fils and Pierre Chauvet    A STATEMENT OF THE LAWS OF HAITI IN MATTERS AFFECTING BUSINESS    Washington, DC: Pan American Union, 1955. 77 pages includes index. Hard bound, very good condition.
  • $35.00
  
  
  
• # 1617z    Pudney, Edwin     HAITI WHITE ALREADY TO HARVEST    Toronto, Canada: The Beacon Press, 1944. Small intriguing book by a missionary in 1944. Also lovely small b/w photos on slick page. Qutie scarce item.
  • $25.00
  
  
  
• # 111z    Sanderson, Ivan T.     LIVING TREASURE    NY: The Viking Press, 1941. Hard bound, very good condition. Travel writer doesn't visit Haiti for this book's entry, but relies on letters from a group of Haitians whom he makes out to be most unreliable. It's a follow up to the horse story he tells in his 1939 book. He reveals himself to be not much of a naturalist. His view was that the horses of the Pine Forest were prehistoric or pre-Spanish, but this is dashed. This story is from letters from some Haitians he hires to kill one of the Pine Forest horses, which they do.
  • $12.00
  
  
  
• # 1677z    Schafer, Daniel L.     ANNA KINGSLEY    St. Augustine, Fl.: St. Augustine Historical Society, 1997. This is a biography of Anna Kingsley and contains material on Boyer's plan to import free blacks to Haiti. Kingsley was a slave born in Africa. Soft bound, 62 pages in very good condition.
  • $9.00
  
  
  
• # 1676z    Thorbjarnarson, John B.     THE STATUS AND ECONLOGY OF THE AMERICAN CROCODILE IN HAITI    Gainsville, Fl: University of Florida, 1988. From the Bulletin of the Florida State Museum: Biological Sciences. Vol. 33, No. 1. 88 pages, a very detailed study with lots of data.
  • $16.00
  
  
  
• #1640z    U.S. POLICY TOWARD HAITI    Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2000. Hearing before the committee on international relations: House of Representatives Serial No. 106-86. Soft bound. Fine condition.
  • $8.00
  
  
  
• # 1613z    Vedrine, Emmanuel W.     UN STYLO INTERNATIONAL    Cambridge, Ma.: Soup To Nuts Publishers, 1994. Paper bound in fine condition. Poetry in English, French and Creole.
  • $8.00
  
  
  
• # 115z    Waite, Arthur Edward     A NEW ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF FREEMASONRY     NY: Wings Books, 1994. 488 pages. Hard bound in dust jacket in fine condition.
  • $26.00
  
  
  
• # 282z    Waugh, Alec.     HOT COUNTRIES    NY: Farrar and Rinehart, 1930. Signed by the author and dated. Hardbound in very good condition. Good section on pirates and some material on Haiti and President Vincent. The book is an intriguing historical document, an evocative record of the places portrayed and an impression of the time's attitudes. Alec Waugh's story comes across clearly in quaint ethnocentricity, aided ably by Lynd Ward's powerfully resonant wood engravings.
  • Hardback. Good. $14.00.
  
  
  
• # 281z    Waugh, Alec.     ISLAND IN THE SUN.     1955 novel set in a fictional British island. Not much about Haiti itself, but the treatment of the color problem on his island is an excellent treatment and helps a great deal in understanding the color problem of Haiti.
  • Hardback. Good. $6.00.

• # 283z    Waugh, Alex     LOVE AND THE CARIBBEAN   NY: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1958. Hard bound in dust jacket, very fine. of Alec Waugh's stories about the Caribbean written in the 1930s, 40s and 50s. A charming book for lovers of the region.
  • $9.00
  
  
  
• # 1647z    Weil, Thomas E. et al.    AREA HANDBOOK FOR HAITI: A COUNTRY STUDY    Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1973. Book of essays about all aspects of Haitian life, government and land. Hard bound in fine condition.
  • $18.00
  
  
  
• # 108z    Werner, David Carol Thuman and Jan Maxwell     WHERE THERE IS NO DOCTOR: A VILLAGE HEALTH CARE HANDBOOK    Palo Alto, CA: Hesperian Foundation, 1992. Paper bound in fine condition. Where There Is No Doctor is the most widely used health care manual in use in developing countries today. Using simple language and hundreds of drawings, the book provides information about recognising, treating and preventing common illnesses and injuries. But it is far more than simple first aid information. It covers a wide range of subjects that affect the health of the villager - from diarrhoea to tuberculosis, from helpful and harmful home remedies to the cautious use of certain modern medicines. Special importance is placed on cleanliness, a healthy diet, vaccination, childbirth and family planning.
  • $14.00
  
  
  
• # 1655z    Wilson, Robert A.     HAITI: WHERE COURTESY REIGNS...    Dowagiac, Michigan: Wilson Printing Company, 1955. This is a very unusual and rare item. AN unpaginated book, must be well over 100 pages, in type-written-like type, and with b/w photos and commentary. Only copy I've ever seen offer for sale. Worn but in good condition.
  • $52.00
  
  
  

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