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Review: The Error World: An Affair with Stamps by Simon Garfield (Guardian Unlimited)

As a boy, Simon Garfield started collecting “errors” – rare stamps flawed by printing faults and absent colours. As an adult his childhood obsession became a full-blown mid-life crisis. This amusing but painfully revealing account of a passion he was once only able to admit to people he could really trust traces his fascination for these tiny print slip-ups from the simple pleasures of …

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