(Read and download) Leman The Error World: An Affair with Stamps
·•●- Mr. Simon Garfield ·•●-
| #1307970 in Books | 2009-01-20 | Format: Deckle Edge | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | .85 x6.42 x8.58l,.80 | File Name: 0151013969 | 256 pages
||1 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Stamp collecting as a metaphor?|By Jill Meyer|Another reviewer of this book on USA - 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 appli||
|PRAISE FOR MAUVE|"Garfield has surpassed himself with his new subject matter: Mauve elegantly relates the tale of Victorian chemist William Perkin who, in 1856, failed to make quinine from coal tar but discovered instead how to
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 unque... [PDF.vb87] Leman The Error World: An Affair with Stamps Rating: 3.90 (460 Votes)
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