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The Error World
de Simon Garfield
- Usado
- near fine
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Near Fine/near fine
- ISBN 10
- 0151013969
- ISBN 13
- 9780151013968
- Librería
-
Bridgetown, Nova Scotia, Canada
Formas de pago aceptadas
Sobre este artículo
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009. First American edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine.
Sinopsis
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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Detalles
- Librería
- Endless Shores Books
(CA)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 100826
- Título
- The Error World
- Autor
- Simon Garfield
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Near Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- near fine
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First American edition
- ISBN 10
- 0151013969
- ISBN 13
- 9780151013968
- Editorial
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Lugar de publicación
- U.s.a.
- Fecha de publicación
- 2009
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Biography / Autobiography;
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Sobre el vendedor
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Bridgetown, Nova Scotia
Sobre Endless Shores Books
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