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Collectors, military historians and shooting entusiasts alike will welcome this comprehensive and long overdue treatise on the world's first automatic machine gun - Sir Hiram Maxim's Gun. Presented in Collector Grade's usual in depth fashion the story begins with an interesting treatise on the origins of the Maxim name.Hiram 's birth and earlt life in rustic pre Civil War :New England, and the remarkable rise of this largely self- educated man to a position of celebrated prominence where his crowning touch , the invention of the electirc light, resulted in his being invited by a consortium of his competitors to go to Europe for ten years with the stipulation that "under no condition was he to make any new electrical inventions during that time." Maxim did just that. Settling in England the very dawn of the solid drawn cartrideg case era in the British military, he methodically researched the quick firing weapon then available
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The Devil's Paintbrush: Sir Hiram Maxim's Gun
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Collector Grade Publications,Canada, 1993
ISBN 10: 0889350566
ISBN 13: 9780889350564
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Seller: Zulu Books, Keswick, NA, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 2nd Edition. A fine/near fine copy in a fine dustcover. Some extremely light page end marks and light spine crush developing, otherwise very impressive. The pages are clean, crisp and bright with a straight spine and a very tight binding. An impressive example of this scarce book. A heavy copy. Please see photos. Seller Inventory # ABE-1713433673054
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Devil*s Paintbrush: Sir Hiram Maxim*s Gun
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hardcover. Condition: Like New. Like New. book. Seller Inventory # D8S0-3-M-0889350566-4
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