An edition of The Getting Game (1974)

The Getting Game

How to get Things For Practically Nothing

[1st ed.]

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An edition of The Getting Game (1974)

The Getting Game

How to get Things For Practically Nothing

[1st ed.]

This is an offbeat, mad, and very funny book about how to get things for almost nothing. You just have to be at the right place at the right time. Wreckers, developments where houses are about to be bulldozed, hock shops - all are rich sources. George Daniels is the author of many practical and useful books on things around the house. He is also a very funny man. Says he: "Actually this is an account of some of our more amusing experiences in the course of a quarter of a century of 'how-to' writing and editing..." There are chapters on Rolls-Royce (that's the right plural); a pipe organ; renting fabulous houses for practically nothing; acquiring a Steinway; building a luxury car (with bar - what if it does ice up on August days?); making your own boat (or being given one); transferring free or almost free houses down the road a piece; building a house if you can't do any better; the versatile pawn shop; and building up believable pedigrees for your finds. ("A real Schuetz-Maybach - the elder Schuetz, from Friedrichshafen. His son became burgomeister of Iltz.")

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Publisher
Harper & Row
Language
English
Pages
158

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The Getting Game: How to get Things For Practically Nothing
1974, Harper & Row
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Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
381
Library of Congress
HF5482 .D35 1974

The Physical Object

Format
Hardback
Pagination
158 p.
Number of pages
158

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL5420903M
Internet Archive
gettinggame0000dani
ISBN 10
0060109394
LCCN
73014251
OCLC/WorldCat
900744
Goodreads
4026124

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