Rudyard Kipling
328 copies for sale · $17–$12,500 · 96 first editions · 15 signed
Notable copies for sale
The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling Signed limited edition in 35 vols. (signed) — Whitmore Rare Books$12,500
Jungle Books (first edition, signed) — Bauer Rare Books$85
Works Bombay Edition (signed) — Heritage Book Shop$8,500
The Burwash Edition of the Complete Works in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling 28 vols (signed) — Lorne Bair Rare Books$8,500
Portrait photograph of Rudyard Kipling (signed) — David Brass Rare Books$2,500
Quartette, the Christmas Annual of the Civil and Military Gazette (first edition) — Whitmore Rare Books$7,500
Departmental Ditties (first edition) — Burnside Rare Books$7,500
Quartette (first edition) — David Brass Rare Books$4,500
The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book (first edition) — Whitmore Rare Books$4,500
The Bombay Edition of The Works of Rudyard Kipling (signed) — Swan's Fine Books$1,500
Departmental Ditties, and Other Verses (first edition, signed) — B & B Rare Books$200
Captains Courageous (first edition) — Manhattan Rare Books$1,000
Works on the market
JUST SO STORIES12 copies · £37–£1,500
JUNGLE BOOK8 copies · $37–$8,500
PLAIN TALES FROM THE HILLS6 copies · $30–$78
THE SEVEN SEAS5 copies · $40–$450
THE LIGHT THAT FAILED5 copies · $32–$144
Five Nations4 copies · $35–$600
CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS: A STORY OF THE GRAND BANKS3 copies · $25–$7,500
Collected Verse3 copies · $400–$2,750
Puck of Pook's Hill3 copies · $125–$500
Limits and Renewals3 copies · $35–$150
LIFE'S HANDICAP : ; Being Stories of Mine Own People3 copies · $30–$98
THE SECOND JUNGLE BOOK3 copies · $50–$98
TWENTY ONE TALES; Folio Society3 copies · $73–$91
STALKY & CO3 copies · $35–$85
TRAFFICS AND DISCOVERIES3 copies · $25–$85
Five Nations3 copies · £50–£75
CAPTAIN COURAGEOUS3 copies · $43–$73
INDIAN TALES By Rudyard Kipling - Hardcover3 copies · $50–$64
Departmental Ditties and Other Verses2 copies · $200–$6,000
The Jungle Book With the Second Jungle Book2 copies · £3,500–£4,500
Market context
116 copies of Rudyard Kipling's works have left the market recently; the median last-listed price was $75 (last listed prices at time of sale or removal, not confirmed sale prices).
Recent auction results (hammer prices, premiums not included):
Just So Stories, first edition, first state, 1902. (forum, 2026-07-02)£85
The Second Jungle Book, 1st edition, London: Macmillan and Co., 1895 (dominic winter, 2026-07-01)£180
Autograph verse from 'The Native-Born' signed, Kimberley, 9 March [18]98 (bonhams, 2026-07-01)£1,000
Just So Stories, first edition, second issue cloth, 1902; and a first edition of "Toad of (forum, 2026-06-04)£150
The Years Between, first edition, 1919; and 2 other first editions by the same (3) (forum, 2026-06-04)£35
The Seven Seas, 1896; and others by the same (20) (forum, 2026-06-04)£30
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