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A Gordon S. Maxwell Bibliography


A list of books written by Gordon S. Maxwell. Note the title of The Rhymes of a Motor Launch which is a play on The Rubiyat of Omar Khayyam which would have been clearly perceived by Maxwell's fellow R.N.V.R. officers for whom the book was compiled. So far, I haven't found any books written by him after 1935, the year his brother Donald Maxwell died. I'm not sure what the connection is—if any.

Title Sub Title Publication Year Publisher
Undine: The Water Sprite James Brodie Ltd.
The Unnatural History of Aldine House 1912 League of Unnatural Historians
Balmy Springtime 1912 Gay & Hancock, Ltd.
The Rhymes of Amot Orlaunch And Other M.L. Odies and Verses 1918 J.M. Dent & Sons, Limited
The Motor Launch Patrol 1920 J.M. Dent & Sons, Limited
The Naval Front 1920 A. & C. Black, Limited
The Author's Thames A Literary Ramble Through The Thames Valley 1924 Brentano's
The Fringe of London Being Some Ventures and Adventures in Topography 1925 Cecil Palmer
Just Beyond London Home Traveller's Tales with Some Glimpses of Rus-In-Sub-Urbe 1927 Methune & Co., Ltd.
The Road to France Being the Notes of Two 20th Century Highwaymen on and off the Watling Street from London to Dover 1928 Methune & Co., Ltd.
Seen in the Hedgerow Studies of Animal and Bird Life in Lane and Field 1930 James Brodie Ltd.
Told by a Woodland Brownie Furthur Studies of Animal and Bird Life in the Woods 1931 Brodie Ltd.
Highwayman's Heath The Story in Fact and Fiction of Hounslow Heath in Middlesex 1935 Thomasons Ltd.
The Twelve Labours of Hercules 1935 Brodie