Notes Lifemanship Summary Recent Researches by Stephen Potter (42 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Some Notes on Lifemanship : With a Summary of Recent Researches in Gamesmanship. Stephen Potter. Penguin. 1962. 116p. paperback, covers bumped/scuffed, binding tight, text clean/unmarked5.00.

Condition: Good. 1962. 115 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.

Condition: Good. 1962. Reprint. 116 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.

Condition: Good. 1962. Published in Penguin Books. 116 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Black and white illustrations throughout. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.

Condition: Good. 1962. 115 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.

Condition: Good. 1962. 115 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.

Condition: Good. 1962. No Edition Remarks. 116 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.

Condition: Good. 1964. Reprinted. 115 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Black and white illustrations throughout. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 2.55.

Condition: Good. 1962. First Edition Thus. 115 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Black and white illustrations throughout. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.

Condition: Fair. 1962. First Edition Thus. 115 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Black and white illustrations throughout. Slight cracking to binding, first page slightly loose. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Pencil inscription to first page. Water staining to some page edges, text remains unaffected. Paper cover has mild edgewear with curling to corners. Light tanning to spine and edges with splits to spine edges. Staple and water staining to front cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Later Impression (1955). The Book Is Bound In Red Cloth Over Boards With Silver Lettering On The Spine. The Book Has Moderate Foxing On The Upper Page Edges.

Condition: Good. 1950. No Edition Remarks. 126 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Black and white illustrations and illustrative plates by Frank Wilson. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild crinkling, inscriptions, occasional foxing and mild tanning. Boards have mild edge wear with light rubbing and crushing. Some light marking and tanning. There is bumping to corners. Boards are bowed. Book has a slight forward lean.

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.

Condition: Good. 1962. Reprint. 116 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Book is in better condition than most examples of this age. Neat, clean, well bound pages with very minimal foxing, tanning and thumbing. Small inscriptions and neat labels may be present. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. A soft cover book in as-new condition. Contains black and white illustrations. Pages are clean, intact and unmarked. The cover is clean and bright with no major signs of wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Good condition chipped d.j. Dust Jacket Condition: fair. Frank Wilson (illustrator). 120p., illus.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. AMAZON CUSTOMERS PLEASE NOTE THIS IS NOT STEPHEN POTTER'S ONE UPMANSHIP!!! Fair condition soft cover, some wear to cover and spine, tanning to pages, otherwise in a good readable condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. AMAZON CUSTOMERS PLEASE NOTE THIS IS NOT STEPHEN POTTER'S ONE UPMANSHIP!!! Fair condition soft cover, some wear to cover and spine, tanning to pages, otherwise in a good readable condition.

Condition: Fair. 1952. Sixth Impression. 126 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over red cloth. Black and white illustrations throughout. Light foxing and moderate tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Binding is slightly loose but pages remain attached. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild water staining, tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has light tanning with soft crushing to ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Unclipped dust jacket with moderate rubbing, chipping and tearing to edges. Moderate water staining, tanning and scuffing overall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. presumed 1st. Red crayon mks dj flaps and 3 internal pages. Hand calligraphed note"to Paul" on front endpaper. Paul's name verso fr cover. very good, good+ lightly worn & chipped dj, red cloth 120 pgs. Book.

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.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Frank Wilson (illustrator). Reprint. 128 and 127 pp b/w illustrations, bound in green, and red cloth with silver title to spines. Pages a little tanned, book plates to endpapers otherwise books clean and sound, dust wrappers sunned on spines, edge rubbed with a few nicks and tears, Gamesmanship a little spotted.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Wilson, Frank (illustrator). First Thus. Paperback - first Penguin printing (#1827) - in exceptionally good condition for age, with Nicolas Bentley cover. No notable shelfwear or tanning. Pages are clean and sound. Excellent. TS. Used.

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. No jacket. Penguin Books, 1964, reprint. Paperback, sm8vo, 116pp, illust. Pages slightly yellowed and marked. A fair copy. /0.2uk . (Please note that our condition gradings are stricter than those of Abebooks and many other sellers. There may therefore be a discrepancy between this description and its listed condition grading).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Very good condition soft cover, 115 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Frank Wilson (illustrator). Tenth Impression. Dustwrapper, 12mo, pp.126. Illustrated. Dustwrapper slightly dusty with light wear to top edge. Contents clean and bright. VG+ in VG dustwrapper.

Reprint Edition 1827. Condition: vg++. vg++ reprint Penguin Books 1827 1964 edition paperback In stock shipped from our UK warehouse.