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William Henry Hudson

Male : Novelist, Travel writer and on rural life. Came to Britain 1874. Married Emily Wingrave in 1876.
Nationality : English (American parents) Place of Birth : Quilmes, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Date of Birth : 1841 Date of Death : 1922 Age : 81

Pseudonyms : Henry Harford
1888-1895
The Purple Land That England Lost
(1885 Sampson Low) - 2 vols
A Crystal Age
(1887 T Fisher Unwin)
Argentine Ornithology
(1888-9 R H Porter) - with P L Sclater. 2 vols
Osprey, or Egrets and Aigrettes
(1891 [Royal] SPB pamphlet No 3)
Fan : The Story of a Young Girl's Life
(1892 Chapman & Hall) - 2 vols. By Henry Harford
The Naturalist in La Plata
(1892 Chapman & Hall) (1892 London. 2nd Ed - 750)
Idle Days in Patagonia
(1893 C & H) - 1750 (1893 Appleton NY)
Feathered Women
(1893 SPB Pamphlet No 10)
Bird Catching
(1893 SPB Pamphlet No 12)
Birds in a Village
(1893 C & H)
Lost British Birds
(SPB Pamphlet No 14)
British Birds
(1895 Longmans Green)
The Barn Owl
(1895 SPB Pamphlet No 19) - intro to a reprint of Charles Waterton's essay
Letter to Clergymen, Ministers and Others
(1895 SPB Pamphlet No 25)

1896-1900
Pipits
(1897 RSPB Pamphlet No 21)
Birds in London
(1898 LG)
The Trade in Birds' Feathers
(1898 SPB Pamphlet No 28)
Nature in Downland
(1900 LG)

1901-1910
Birds and Man
(1901 LG)
(Preface to) Paul Fountain : The Great Deserts and Forests of North America (1901 Longmans Green)
El Ombu
(1902 Duckworth)
Hampshire Days
(1903 LG)
A Linnet for Sixpence
(1904 SPB Pamphlet No 50)
The Purple Land
(1904 Duckworth)
Green Mansions : A Romance of the Tropical Forest
(1904 Duckworth) (1916 Knopf)
A Little Boy Lost
(1905 Duckworth) - A D McCormick
The Land's End : A Naturalist's Impressions
(1908 Hutchinson)
Afoot in England
(1909 Hutchinson)
A Shepherd's Life : Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs
(1910 Methuen) - Bernard C Gotch

1911-1920
A Thrush that Never Lived
(1911 RSPB Pamphlet No 67)
Adventures Among Birds
(1913 Hutchinson)
On Liberating Cage Birds
(1914 RSPB Pamphlet No 73)
Far Away and Long Ago : A History of My Early Life
(1918 Dent)
Ruff and a Linnet
(1918 Humanitarian League Pamphlet)
Birds in Town and Village
(1919 Dent) - Edward Julius Detmold
The Book of a Naturalist
(1919 H & S)
Birds of La Plata
(1920 Dent) - 2 vols. 3000 - Gronvold
Dead Man's Pluck And An Old Thorn
(1920 Dent)

1921-1930
A Little Boy Lost
(1921 Duckworth) - Dorothy P Lathrop
A Traveller in Little Things
(1921 Dent)
A Tired Traveller
(1921 RSPB Pamphlet No 78)
A Hind in Richmond Park
(1922 Dent)
(Preface to) Edward Thomas : Cloud Castle and Other Papers (1922 Duckworth)
Seagulls in London : Why they Took to Coming to Town
(1922 PP by Clement Shorter) - pamphlet
Complete Works
(1922-3 Dent - 24 vols) - 750
Rare, Vanishing and Lost British Birds
(1923 Dent) - edited by Linda Gardiner. H Gronvold
153 Letters from W H Hudson
(Ed by Edward Garnett) (1923 Nonesuch Press) - 1000
Ralph Herne
(1923 Knopf) - 950
Men, Books and Birds - Letters to a Friend
(1925 Nash & Grayson)
Green Mansions
(1926 Duckworth) - 165 signed by Keith Henderson
A Fairy Fauna
(1927 The Notary Binders, Kensington) - 50
Mary's Little Lamb
(1929 Dent - An Elian Greeting Booklet) - Roberta F C Waudby
The Purple Land
(1929 Duckworth) - Keith Henderson

After 1931
Green Mansions
(1931 Duckworth) - Keith Henderson
[Filmed in 1959]
Green Mansions
(1934 Knopf) - Edward McKnight Kauffer
Green Mansions
(1935 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 1500 signed by Edward A Wilson
W H Hudson's Letters to R B Cunninghame-Graham
(1941 Golden Cockerel Press)
- 250. William Rothenstein
Foreword : Temps
(1947 Edwin B Hill) - 40. 4pp leaflet
Letters on the Ornithology of Buenos Ayres
(1951 Cornell Univ Press)
William Henry Hudson's Diary Concerning His Voyage from Buenos Aires to Southampton
(1958 Westholm Publications)
A Shepherd's Life
(1977 Compton Press, London) - 100. Reynolds Stone

READING
G F Wilson : A Bibliography of the Writings of W H Hudson
(1922 Bookman's Journal, London)
Morley Roberts : W H Hudson - A Portrait
(1924 Nash & Grayson)
Robert Hamilton : W H Hudson - The Vision of Earth
(1946 Dent)
(Ed) Samuel J Looker : The Worthing Cavalcade - W H Hudson - A Tribute by Various Writers
(1947 Worthing)
Richard E Haymaker : From Pampas to Hedgerows and Downs - A Study of W H Hudson
(1954 Bookman Associates, NY)
Herbert Faulkner West : For a Hudson Biographer
(1958 Westholm Publ, Hanover, New Hampshire)
G F Wilson : A Bibliography of the Writings of W H Hudson
(1968 Bailey & Swinfen, Folkstone)
John R Payne : W H Hudson - A Bibliography
(1977 Dawson, Folkestone)
Dennis Shrubsall : W H Hudson - Writer and Naturalist
(1978 Compton Press)
Ruth Tomalin : W H Hudson - A Biography
(1982 Faber £13.50)

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