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The madman's guide to stamp collecting
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- Book Synopsis
- Acclaimed historian and novelist Robert Irwin takes us on a fascinating, wayward journey through a wealth of literary texts that cast a surprising light on stamps and the curious activity of collecting them. Drawing on writers from Sigmund Freud to Ellery Queen, Irwin charts an erudite path that encompasses the psychology and psychopathology of collecting, classification, nostalgia, anal retentiveness, secrecy and subversion, boredom and death. As his sources take him from the colonial history o
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- ISBN
- 9781805337744
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Pushkin Press, (10 April 2025)
- Number of Pages
- 240
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 20 mm
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