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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
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
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
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
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.