--- product_id: 17257593 title: "The Error World: An Affair With Stamps Hardcover – Deckle Edge, January 20, 2009" brand: "simon garfield" price: "NT$1888" currency: TWD in_stock: true reviews_count: 16 url: https://www.desertcart.tw/products/17257593-the-error-world-an-affair-with-stamps-hardcover-deckle-edge store_origin: TW region: Taiwan --- # The Error World: An Affair With Stamps Hardcover – Deckle Edge, January 20, 2009 **Brand:** simon garfield **Price:** NT$1888 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Error World: An Affair With Stamps Hardcover – Deckle Edge, January 20, 2009 by simon garfield - **How much does it cost?** NT$1888 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.tw](https://www.desertcart.tw/products/17257593-the-error-world-an-affair-with-stamps-hardcover-deckle-edge) ## Best For - simon garfield enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted simon garfield brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Full description not available ## Images ![The Error World: An Affair With Stamps Hardcover – Deckle Edge, January 20, 2009 - Image 1](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51J+rJdXXfL.jpg) ![The Error World: An Affair With Stamps Hardcover – Deckle Edge, January 20, 2009 - Image 2](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/310nFp8WDkL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Stamp collecting as a metaphor? *by G***L on Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2011* Another reviewer of this book on AmazonUSA - who gave the book three stars - asks a question of what "conceit" a person has to have to think their lives are interesting enough to write a memoir and have other people pay money to read it. It's a good question - very good, and thank you "Mendicant Pigeon" for asking it - and actually applies to any memoir, not just this one.Simon Garfield has written many interesting books about a variety of subjects - ranging from the color mauve to AIDS in Britain to attitudes in Britain during and after WW2 to his latest, a book on type fonts. He's a clever writer about subjects that are not of general interest but are of interest to a large enough subset of readers who have the coin to buy his books and the time to read them. Along the way, he managed in his personal life to lose three members of his family - parents and older brother in the span of a few years - and to marry, father two sons, and then have an affair and divorce his wife. During this busy time, he also collected stamps - off and on - and returned to his collecting ways during his marital problems.Okay, returning to Mendicant's question, is this the stuff of memoir? To me the answer is "yes", because this is Simon Garfield's memoir and he has addressed odd stuff before - though not in a personal way of a memoir. Memoirs are "sticky wickets", the author must know that most people don't much care about an author's life and attendant joys and woes. If it's a famous person - say Bill Clinton - there's more interest in the memoir because he's FAMOUS. (As an aside, as much as I liked Bill Clinton, I found his memoir one-big-yawn because he seemed to include everything with little editing. I like "editing"...) The best memoirs - to me, at least - are those by little-known people. We don't go into them with any preconceived notion of the person we're reading about.So, yes, I think Simon Garfield's memoir, "The Error World: An Affair about Stamps, is a well-written read. If you care in the very least about the intricacies of stamp collecting - actually, about collecting anything - and don't mind reading about a man's mid-life crisis being told in the terms of stamp collecting, this is a book for you. If you don't care a bit about mid-life crises, then don't pick this book up. It's actually very easy.And thanks again, Mendicant, for asking... ### ⭐⭐⭐ All of it *by J***E on Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2019* I like the book not finished with it ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Philatelists will love this one *by C***W on Reviewed in the United States on June 16, 2011* An entertaining, well-written, non-fiction read for anyone who collects anything, but especially postage stamps. Rare stamps (in particular, errors) could be considered extreme collecting, and this story is all about that. 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