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The Error World: An Affair with Stamps
by Garfield, Simon
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0151013969
- ISBN 13
- 9780151013968
- Seller
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Woodlawn, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009. First Thus 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Stated First U. S. Edition (First Thus) With The Number Line Indicating A First Printing. The Book Is Bound In Black Cloth Over Boards With Gilt Lettering On The Spine. The Unclipped Jacket Has Minor Wear.
Synopsis
From the author of Mauve, an obsessively readable memoir that brings the mania for stamp collecting to life From the Penny Red to the Blue Mauritius, generations of collectors have been drawn to the mystique of rare stamps. Once a widespread pastime of schoolboys, philately has increasingly become the province of older men obsessed with the shrewd investment, the once-in-a-lifetime find, the one elusive beauty that will complete a collection and satisfy an unquenchable thirst. As a boy, Simon Garfield collected errors—rare pigment misprints that create ghostly absences in certain stamps. When this passion reignited in his mid-forties, it consumed him. In the span of a couple of years he amassed a collection of errors worth upwards of forty thousand pounds, pursuing not only this secret passion, but a romantic one as his marriage disintegrated. In this unique memoir, Simon Garfield twines the story of his philatelic obsession with an honest and engrossing exploration of the rarities and absences that both limit and define us.The end result is a thoughtful, funny, and enticing meditation on the impulse to possess.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Granada Bookstore (Member IOBA)
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 039590
- Title
- The Error World: An Affair with Stamps
- Author
- Garfield, Simon
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Thus 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0151013969
- ISBN 13
- 9780151013968
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 2009
- Pages
- 245
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- Stamp Collectors - England - London - Biography; Authors, English - 20Th Century - Biography; Journalists - England - London - Biography; Postage Stamps - Errors - England - London. Stamps, "Editors, Journalists, Publishers
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About the Seller
Granada Bookstore (Member IOBA)
Biblio member since 2013
Woodlawn, Illinois
About Granada Bookstore (Member IOBA)
I have a small inventory of about 23,000 titles. I sell from my own property and only on-line. I started selling on line in 1999. This is my Fourth year with Biblio.
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- Spine
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- Gilt
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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