![]() ![]() First edition, first issue, with pagination at p. 750 copies printed This edition had five new poems as well as alterations to three poems Copies for Sale Civil and Military Gazette Press, Lahore (1886). Kipling's auction career is as robust as his writing career. An endorsed copy of Kipling's poem, If, with a handwritten note from the author sold for $1,434.00 in April of 2011 through Heritage Auctions. His credentials boast of a Nobel Prize in Literature (to which he remains the youngest ever recipient) and several nominations to the British Poet Laureateship for knighthood (which he politely declined).Ī collectible set of Kipling's The Jungle Books including a first edition, second printing of The Jungle Book published in London by Macmillan in 1894 anda first edition copy of The Second Jungle Book also published in London by Macmillan in 1895 were sold in April of 2012 for $1,562.50. He is noted as being an author who "can inspire passionate disagreement." His intuitive narrative gifts have made him a literary icon. He is best known for his works of fiction, including The Jungle Book(1894). Born in Bombay and raised in England, most of his stories involved British soldiers and their adventures India. Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English novelist, poet and short-story writer. ![]()
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