{"product_id":"the-philatelist-tito-perdue-9781940933801","title":"The Philatelist","description":"\u003cp\u003eTito Perdue's \u003cem\u003eThe Philatelist\u003c\/em\u003e is a novella about the joys of stamp collecting as a refuge from an unhappy life. \u003cem\u003eThe Philatelist\u003c\/em\u003e is paired with the short story \"Good Things in Tiny Places,\" read on the occasion of the author receiving the 2015 H. P. Lovecraft Prize for Literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"It happens more than just sometimes that overly refined persons like thee and me may opt to turn away from ordinary things and seek entry into a more perfect world than this one. I'm thinking about art galleries, concert halls, coin and stamp collections, ingenious mechanical devices or a well-played chess match. People like you spend too much time gazing at the stars while others, like my good friend who offers us a case study of the type, has traded away his life in a still-continuing struggle to assemble a non-representative array of the world's most beautiful postage stamps. A little custodial 'art gallery, ' he calls it, his own bespoken domain after three failed marriages and a deleterious son. All the elements, I've been told, can be found in a single drop of sea water. So, too, with a choice collection of the world's postage brought together for aesthetic purposes. Thus my friend. One doesn't need to be a good person, remember, to be extraordinarily interesting anyway.\"--From the author \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tito Perdue\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1940933803\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781940933801\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Counter-Currents Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/15\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 102\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.59lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.38d","brand":"Tito Perdue","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48486412943615,"sku":"9781940933801","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9ac9912d-596c-471f-bb79-f0c578ad0013.jpg?v=1778055351","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-philatelist-tito-perdue-9781940933801","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}