Title: The error world
First published: 2008
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.
Subjects: Authors, English, Biography, English Authors, Errors, Journalists, Postage stamps, Stamp collectors, Postage stamps, collectors and collecting, Stamp collecting, Psychological aspects, London (england), biography, Authors, biography, Journalists, biography
Places: England, London
People: Simon Garfield
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: HE6207.G37 A3 2008