One-Upmanship. Being some Account of the Activities and Teaching of the Lifemanship Correspondence College of One-Upness and Gameslifemastery
by Stephen Potter
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Good+
- Seller
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Blackpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1952. 1st Edition First Thus. Hardcover. Very Good+/Good+. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Lt.-Col. Frank Wilson. 1952 first edition, first thus. Size 12mo, 7.25" tall, 160 pages. Blue hard cover with silver gilt titles to the spine, with the dust jacket. Book condition very good, corners and spine ends slightly rubbed, contents are very clean. Dust jacket condition good plus, corners edges and spine ends are rubbed and slightly chipped, spine sunned, folds rubbed, not price clipped, price 8s. 6d. net.
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- Bookseller
- Lazarus Books Limited
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 017876
- Title
- One-Upmanship. Being some Account of the Activities and Teaching of the Lifemanship Correspondence College of One-Upness and Gameslifemastery
- Author
- Stephen Potter
- Illustrator
- Lt.-Col. Frank Wilson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition First Thus
- Publisher
- Rupert Hart-Davis
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1952
- Pages
- 160
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Keywords
- NON FICTION HUMOUR
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About the Seller
Lazarus Books Limited
Biblio member since 2007
Blackpool, Lancashire
About Lazarus Books Limited
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 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...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
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