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Maxim, Hudson Lake Hopatcong the Beautiful. A Plea for Its Dedication as a Public Park and for its Preservation as a Pleasure and Health Resort for the Benefit of all the People.
Maxim Park, Hopatcong Landing: the author, [1913]. Third edition (pp. 65, map). Small folio (25 cm) in stiff gray wraps, black titles to front cover. Illustrated with folding colour map showing the Lake Hopatcong region, the Morris Canal, etc. which Maxim sought to preserve. A few spots and smudges to the front cover, mild moisture tide line apparent on first ten and last five pages, a few small nibbles to one edge of map. Generally a clean, bright copy although, some care is required in handling the perfect binding. A very good copy of a scarce New Jerseyana title. Hudson Maxim was the younger brother of Hiram Maxim, the inventor of the Maxim gun whose design was incorporated in virtually every sort of machine-gun used in the two world wars. Hudson Maxim himself experimented with and eventually produced a smokeless gun powder which, among its other merits, was especially suited to ammunition fired from a machine gun as it left relatively little residue which otherwise would form deposits on the moving parts of the gun and cause it to jam. For some time Maxim operated an ammunition factory at (where else?) Maxim, NJ, but eventually sold the manufacturing process, etc., to the DuPonts. It was said of Hudson Maxim that he had a great love for the lake region, or at least for that part of it he hadn’t already blown up.
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170.00 USD
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Maxim, Hudson The Science of Poetry and The Philosophy of Language.
New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1910. First edition, illustrated by William Oberhardt (pp. xiii, 294; 43 pp. adverts). Large octavo (25 cm) bound in decorative red publisher’s cloth, gilt titles to cover and spine. Hudson Maxim, brother of Hiram Maxim the inventor of the Maxim machinegun, was a self-taught chemist who formulated a smokeless gun powder which worked nicely in his brother’s guns. He had something of a literary bent and is pictured wearing a slouch hat set at a rakish angle, published a work of literary theory in which he applied the principles of chemistry and physics as he knew them to the understanding and composition of poetry. His thesis was that the language of the great works of English poetry exhibits regular, rule-following, and therefore predictable patterns of application in which certain fundamental, irreducible elements are combined to produce, say, the works of Shakespeare, Milton, and Wordsworth. It followed that these eminent practitioners of poetic language somehow must have been aware of the elements and principles of poetic composition, whatever they might be, and that literary expression could be evaluated based on the extent to which it adhered to those principles. For more on the Maxim brothers of Sangerville, Maine, see our web site’s Remarks and Notices Archive. Binding worn at the edges; otherwise a very good copy.
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