Autographs of Rudyard Kipling
Joseph Rudyard Kipling (/ˈrʌdjərd/ RUD-yərd; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English journalist, novelist, poet and short-story writer. He was born in British India, which inspired much of his work.
Kipling's works of fiction include the Jungle Book duology (The Jungle Book, 1894; The Second Jungle Book, 1895), Kim (1901), the Just So Stories (1902) and many short stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King" (1888). His poems include "Mandalay" (1890), "Gunga Din" (1890), "The Gods of the Copybook Headings" (1919), "The White Man's Burden" (1899) and "If—" (1910). He is seen as an innovator in the art of the short story. His children's books are classics; one critic noted "a versatile and luminous narrative gift".
Kipling in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was among the United Kingdom's most popular writers. Henry James said "Kipling strikes me personally as the most complete man of genius, as distinct from fine intelligence, that I have ever known." In 1907, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, as the first English-language writer to receive the prize, and at 41, its youngest recipient to date. He was also sounded out for the British Poet Laureateship and several times for a knighthood, but declined both. Following his death in 1936, his ashes were interred at Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey.
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The most expensive item with a signature of Rudyard Kipling (Captains Courageous ~ SIGNED by RUDYARD KIPLING ~ First British Edition 1st 1897) was sold in December 2025 for £9,561.29 while the cheapest item (RUDYARD KIPLING Signed Letter - Author / Writer) found a new owner for £1.99 in August 2013. The month with the most items sold (10) was June 2025 with an average selling price of £105.99 for an autographed item of Rudyard Kipling. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in March 2019 with £2,495.00 and the month that saw the lowest prices with £4.90 was October 2022. In average, an autographed item from Rudyard Kipling is worth £98.42.
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