POTTER, STEPHEN. — Muse in Chains. A Study in Education.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1937. 1st edition. A humorous satire on the academic teaching of English literature. Pp.287, owner's name to inside front board. Brown cloth, gilt title to spine, slightly cocked, minor rubbing to boards with wear to corner tips. G+.** Stephen Meredith Potter (1900 – 1969) was a British writer best known for his parodies of self-help books, and their film and television derivatives. It was the first of his series of books purporting to teach ploys for manipulating one's associates, making them feel inferior and thus gaining the status of being one-up on them. From this book, the term "Gamesmanship" entered the English language. (wiki).