The error world
Subtitle: an affair with stamps
By: Simon Garfield.
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9780571235261
Subjects: Garfield, Simon; Stamp collectors -- England -- London -- Biography; Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography; Journalists -- England -- London -- Biography; Stamp collecting -- Psychological aspects
Genres: Biography
Other titles: Affair with stamps
Description: When he was very young, Simon Garfield lusted after rare stamps but could not afford them. When he was older, the passion reignited with almost ruinous results. The Error World is an examination of obsession and desire, and the search for fulfilment. But it is also a story of wooden legs, pornography in the Finchley Road, Pele's World Cup shirt, the man who guards stamps for the Queen, and a woman who is terrified of the Post Office Tower.