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Planet Hastings Crazy Golf Club

(A tribute to Stephen Potter, the Father of Sports Psychology - 'Gamesmanship' is alive and well)

Stephen Potter at the BBC: Features in War and Peace  Julian John Potter (March 18, 2004) from Amazon.co.uk

A short bibliography

The Young Man (Novel) 1929

D.H. Lawrence 1930

The Nonesuch Coleridge 1934

Minnow among Tritons: the letters of Mrs S.T. Coleridge 1934

Coleridge and S.T.C. 1935

The Muse in Chains 1937

The How series of broadcasts (with Joyce Grenfell) 1942-50

The Theory & Practice of Gamesmanship or The Art of Winning Games Without Actually Cheating1947

Some Notes On Lifemanship or The Art of Getting Away With It Without Being an Absolute Plonk 1950

One-Upmanship; Being Some Account of the Activities and Teaching of the Lifemanship Correspondence College of One-Upness and Gameslifemastery Illus. by Lt. Col. Frank Wilson 1952

The Humour of Satire1954

Sense of Humour 1954 (editor)

Potter on America 1956

Supermanship 1958

The Magic Number: The Story of '57' 1959

Steps to Immaturity 1959 (Autobiography 1900-1919) 

Squawky: The Adventures of a Clasperchoice 1964

Anti-woo, the first lifemanship guide 1965

The Complete Golf Gamesmanship 1968 aka Golfmanship

The Complete Upmanship 1970

Pedigree (with  Laurens Sargeant) 1973

Autobiography: Jenkins, Alan. STEPHEN POTTER. Inventor of Gamesmanship.

The new links above go to abe.com where 2nd hand copies may be available.

  

Mary Potter: A Life of Painting  Julian Potter, Julian Spalding (Introduction)

Mary Potter at the Tate

Click on this banner and you should get a long list of available 2nd hand Stephen Potter titles

www.abebooks.co.uk - Used and out-of-print books

 

I have a couple of paperbacks if anyone's interested:

One-Upmanship; Being Some Account of the Activities and Teaching of the Lifemanship Correspondence College of One-Upness and Gameslifemastery Illus. by Lt. Col. Frank Wilson (Penguin Reprint 1978)

Supermanship (Penguin Reprint 1962)

I also have Potter on America Hardback 1st Edition in good condition and a book club hardback edition of The Complete Upmanship for sale.  Email tim@miniaturegolfer.com

The title below is available from amazon.co.uk

Order School for Scoundrels Today! (Video) Henry Palfrey (Ian Carmichael) gets both the girl and revenge on Raymond Delauney (Terry Thomas) with the help of Mr. S. Potter (Alastair Sim).

Order School for Scoundrels Today! on DVD

And here's a great site: Lifemanship with lots more info

A TV series was produced in the 70's called One-Upmanship starring Richard Briers, Frederick Jaeger and Peter Jones.

Stephen Potter was also involved in the writing of the film Ship Builders (1943) based on the novel by George Blake.

Xrefer.com links showing biography and quotes Link 1    Link 2    Link 3

Link to another site showing fuller history

If you know of any other links to Stephen Potter please let me know.  Email tim@miniaturegolfer.com Thanks.