Notes Lifemanship Summary Recent Researches by Potter Stephen Wilson Lt Col Frank (7 results)

paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First Edition. This copy does not have a dust jacket. Illustrated. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail with tracking worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Wilson, Lt-Col. Frank (illustrator). Fine. Mild age-toning to pages, otherwise a very attractive copy, very clean throughout. Cover art by Nicozas Bentley.

Hard Cover/No Jacket. Condition: Very Good. Lt.-Col. Frank Wilson (illustrator). Sixth Impression. pp.126 clean tight copy with tanning to text pages freckles to endpapers red cloth cover shows wear to top front corner and creases to top/bottom spines, silver gilt title on spine, some soiling to covers Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Wilson, Lt. Col. Frank (illustrator). First Edition; First Printing. Missing DJ and front endpaper, front gutter cracked, dealer stamp for The Times Bookshop, Wigmore Street, inside rear cover. ; Red cloth boards with silver gilt lettering to spine. Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside. ; B&W Illustrations; 126 pages; Reprinted from The Lifemanship Papers, 28 studies in advanced Lifemanship, The Bude Lectures. Printed for the Lifemansip Association by the Bude Lectures on Lifemanship Trust, 681 Station Road, Yeovil.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Lt.-Col., Frank Wilson (illustrator). 1st Edition. This copy is in fine condition bound in red cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. There is a signature to the f.e.p. The unclipped dust wrapper has some very mild edge wear and is lightly sunned to the spine but is still in near fine condition. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Stephen Meredith Potter (1 February 1900 - 2 December 1969) was a British writer best known for his parodies of self-help books, and their film and television derivatives. His series of humorous books on how to secure an unfair advantage began in 1947 with Gamesmanship, purporting to show how poor players can beat better ones by subtle psychological ploys. This sold prodigiously and led to a series of sequels covering other aspects of life. The books were adapted for the cinema in the 1960s and for television in the 1970s. Potter followed up the success of Gamesmanship, extending the basic idea to many other aspects of life, in Some Notes on Lifemanship (1950), which was another big seller.[23] In "Lifemanship" Potter extended the principles of gamesmanship to courtship ("Woomanship"), literature ("Writermanship") and pastimes ("Conversationship"). Thus for example the reader is enjoined, "never forget the uses of Lowbrowmanship in conversation . LOWBROWMAN: Oh, I don't know, I rather like a good bit of old-fashioned vulgarity. And I'm awfully sorry but I like leg shows. If the Lowbrowman happens to be a Professor of Aesthetics . his remark is all the more irritating". A related gambit for the journalist was ' Daily Mirrorship . an unaffected love of tremendously ordinary and homely things like Danny Kaye, mild and bitter, the Daily Mirror, the Bertram Mills circus and Rita Hayworth". Potter mentions in passing how "in the last of my Bude lectures I spoke of Gamesmanship and Shakespeare, where most of my remarks referred to Footnote Play". His notes on Donmanship refer to the "art of Criticising without Actually Listening". Ref TT 3.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None. Lt.-Col. Frank Wilson (illustrator). First Penguin Edition. 115 pages. Penguin Books 1827. Light reading crease to front cover; tanning.

Cloth Bound Boards. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. Lt.-Col. Frank Wilson (illustrator). 1st Edition. Size 12mo, 7.25" tall, 126 pages. Burgundy cloth covered boards with silver gilt titles to the spine, with the dust jacket. Book condition very good, corners and spine ends slightly rubbed, offsetting from the dust jacket on the end-papers and title page, gift inscription on front end-paper otherwise contents are clean. Dust jacket condition good plus, corners edges and spine ends are rubbed and chipped with a little loss to spine ends, spine sunned, folds rubbed, not price clipped, price 6s. net.