The Complete Upmanship
by Potter, Stephen; Wilson, Frank (Illust.)
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/good
- Seller
-
Carrollton, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971. Hardcover. Good/good. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". 349pp. Rubbing, toning, chipping, and tears to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Light rubbing and toning to covers and edges of purple cloth over boards. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound.
ABOUT THIS BOOK:
This volume contains Stephen Potter's four best-known works: Gamesmanship, Lifemanship, One-Upmanship and Supermanship. With these Potter achieved perhaps the greatest distinction among humorists - he created a wholly new concept which in a few years has infiltrated all our minds. He revealed that a complete system of cut-throat affability barely suspected in the dark ages before Gamesmanship but deployed with urbane and delicate mockery throughout this inspired quartet. For many, Pottermanship is now virtually a way of life.(Publisher).
ABOUT THIS BOOK:
This volume contains Stephen Potter's four best-known works: Gamesmanship, Lifemanship, One-Upmanship and Supermanship. With these Potter achieved perhaps the greatest distinction among humorists - he created a wholly new concept which in a few years has infiltrated all our minds. He revealed that a complete system of cut-throat affability barely suspected in the dark ages before Gamesmanship but deployed with urbane and delicate mockery throughout this inspired quartet. For many, Pottermanship is now virtually a way of life.(Publisher).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Underground Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14123
- Title
- The Complete Upmanship
- Author
- Potter, Stephen; Wilson, Frank (Illust.)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Holt, Rinehart and Winston
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1971
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About the Seller
Underground Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2009
Carrollton, Georgia
About Underground Books, ABAA
Underground Books is an online rare and antiquarian bookshop as well as a brick and mortar general bookstore of the same name in downtown Carrollton, Georgia. Sister store Hills & Hamlets Bookshop is located in the nearby planned eco-community of Serenbe.
Co-owners Josh Niesse and Megan Bell met in 2011, just 10 days or so after Josh opened the doors of Underground Books, literally underground, several steps below street level in a 100-year-old basement in our historic downtown. Megan, an English student at the University of West Georgia, walked in, fell down the rabbit hole, and never left! Reader, we married in May of 2014, under the book arch that now resides at the bookshop. We are both proud alumni of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS), and Megan additionally of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia and of the ABAA Women's Initiative Mentorship Program.
We have two open bookshops that carry new, used, bargain, rare, and antiquarian books, as well as our online office, impossible without our incredible team of booksellers, including two fellow CABS graduates, Miranda McMillan and Suzanne Carnes.
Like many booksellers with open brick-and-mortar stores, we are passionate generalists, but our specialties are in decorative publisher's cloth bindings; fairy tales, folklore, and mythology; popular science and natural history; the occult; and fine press books.
Co-owners Josh Niesse and Megan Bell met in 2011, just 10 days or so after Josh opened the doors of Underground Books, literally underground, several steps below street level in a 100-year-old basement in our historic downtown. Megan, an English student at the University of West Georgia, walked in, fell down the rabbit hole, and never left! Reader, we married in May of 2014, under the book arch that now resides at the bookshop. We are both proud alumni of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS), and Megan additionally of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia and of the ABAA Women's Initiative Mentorship Program.
We have two open bookshops that carry new, used, bargain, rare, and antiquarian books, as well as our online office, impossible without our incredible team of booksellers, including two fellow CABS graduates, Miranda McMillan and Suzanne Carnes.
Like many booksellers with open brick-and-mortar stores, we are passionate generalists, but our specialties are in decorative publisher's cloth bindings; fairy tales, folklore, and mythology; popular science and natural history; the occult; and fine press books.
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...