Writings of Russell Kirk

Below is a partial list of the books of Russell Kirk (memoirs, nonfiction, and fiction), as well as various books about him.

Items marked with a bullet are still in print or readily available; for the others, we suggest you try a used book service such as abebooks.com or the search service isbn.nu. Publishers’ contact information is also below. You might also try searching for titles at the Mecosta Book Gallery, just down the street from the Kirk Center.

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Memoirs

    
The Sword of Imagination: Memoirs of a Half-Century of Literary Conflict 1995 Eerdmans, ISBN 0-8028-3765-4 (cloth), 0-8028-3954-1 (paper)

Nonfiction and Collected Essays
The Essential Russell Kirk 2007 Edited and with introduction by George A. Panichas. ISI Books, ISBN 1933859016
The American Cause 1957, 1966, 2002 ISI Books, ISBN 1-882926-93-5; edited with a new introduction by Gleaves Whitney; Amazon.com Listing; (earlier edition: Greenwood Publishing Group, ISBN 0-8371-7988-2); Introduction [PDF]; Chapter One [PDF]
Rights and Duties: Reflections on Our Conservative Constitution 1997 Introduction by Russell Hittinger. Revised and expanded version of Our Conservative Constitution. Spence Publishing, ISBN 0-9653208-2-0; Amazon listing with sample pages
Redeeming the Time 1996 ISI Books, ISBN 1-882926-14-5 (cloth) and 1-882926-21-8 (paper); Preface [PDF]
The Politics of Prudence 1993 ISI Books, introduction by Mark C. Henrie, ISBN 1-882926-01-3 (cloth) and 1-882926-00-5 (paper); Chapter One [PDF]
The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot 1953, 1995 Regnery, ISBN 0-89526-724-1 (seventh edition, cloth). Also available from Blackstone Audiobooks. Amazon listing with sample pages
America’s British Culture 1993 Transaction Publishers, ISBN 1-56000-066-X; Amazon Listing with Sample Pages
The Roots of American Order 1974, 1992, 2004 ISI Books, foreword by Forrest McDonald (PDF), ISBN 1-932236-08-2 (cloth), 1-882926-99-4 (paper); Amazon listing; (earlier editions from Regnery Gateway, ISBN 0-89526-755-1)
The Portable Conservative Reader 1982 Viking/Penguin, ISBN 0-14015-095-1; Amazon Listing with Sample Pages
  Eliot and His Age: T. S. Eliot’s Moral Imagination in the Twentieth Century 1971, 1988 Random House, ISBN 0-394-47236-5; Sherwood Sugden & Co., ISBN 0-89385-247-3
  Enemies of the Permanent Things: Observations of Abnormity in Literature and Politics 1969, 1984 Sherwood Sugden & Co., ISBN 0-89385-021-7
Edmund Burke: A Genius Reconsidered 1967, 1988, 1997 ISI Books, ISBN 1-882926-17-X; Foreword by Roger Scruton. Amazon listing with samle pages. Also available from Blackstone Audiobooks.
The Wise Men Know What Wicked Things Are Written on the Sky (eleven lectures) 1987 Regnery, ISBN 0-89526-574-5. Also available from Blackstone Audiobooks.
  Economics: Work and Prosperity  1988 ISBN 1-890624-12-8
Beyond the Dreams of Avarice: Essays of a Social Critic 1956, 1991 Sherwood Sugden & Co., ISBN 0-89385-040-3. Amazon Listing
  Academic Freedom: An Essay in Definition 1955, 1977 Greenwood Publishing Group, ISBN 0-8371-9566-7
Prospects for Conservatives 1954, 1956, 1989 Regnery, ISBN 0-89526-761-6; Amazon Listing with Sample Pages

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 John Randolph of Roanoke: A Study in American Politics 1951, 1964, 1978, 1994 Liberty Fund, fourth edition, ISBN 0-913966-40-1 (paper), 0-913966-39-8 (cloth)

Novels and Collected Stories
Ancestral Shadows: An Anthology of Ghostly Tales 2004 Eerdmans, foreword by Vigen Guroian, ISBN: 0-8028-3938-X (hardcover), 424 pages. Now available through ISI Books.
What Shadows We Pursue: Ghost Stories, Volume Two 2003 Ash-Tree Press, ISBN 1-55310-051-4 (cloth); edited and with an introduction by John Pelan
Off the Sand Road: Ghost Stories, Volume One 2002 Ash-Tree Press, ISBN 1-55310-043-3 (cloth); edited and with an introduction by John Pelan
  Watchers at the Strait Gate (stories) 1984 Arkham House, ISBN 0-87054-098-X
  Lord of the Hollow Dark 1979, 1989 first edition: St. Martin’s Press; second edition: Christendom Press, ISBN 0-931888-35-2 (paper)
  The Princess of All Lands (stories) 1979 Arkham House
  A Creature of the Twilight: His Memorials 1966 Fleet Publishing Corporation
  The Surly Sullen Bell: Ten Stories and Sketches, Uncanny or Uncomfortable 1962 Fleet Publishing Corporation

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 Old House of Fear 1961, 2007 Eerdmans, ISBN 0802817629. Earlier editions: Fleet Publishing Corporation (cloth); Avon (paper)

Books About Russell Kirk
The Postmodern Imagination of Russell Kirk 2007 By Gerald J. Russello, University of Missouri Press, ISBN 978-0-8262-1720-2
Russell Kirk and the Age of Ideology 2004 By W. Wesley McDonald, University of Missouri Press, ISBN 0826215122
Russell Kirk: A Critical Biography of a Conservative Mind 1999 By James E. Person, Jr., Madison Books, ISBN 1-56833-131-2 (First Things review)
The Unbought Grace of Life: Essays in Honor of Russell Kirk 1994 Edited by James E. Person, Jr. Sherwood Sugden & Co., ISBN 0-89385-043-8

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 Russell Kirk: A Bibliography 1981 Compiled by Charles Brown, with an essay by Henry Regnery. Clarke Historical Library, Central Michigan University

Publisher Information
  Eerdmans Publishing Company 800-253-7521
  ISI and ISI Books 800-526-7022
  Liberty Fund Press 800-955-8335
  Madison Books (imprint of Cooper Square Press) 800-462-6420
  Viking (imprint of Penguin Putnam Publishing Group) 800-788-6262
  Regnery Publishing, Inc. 202-216-0600
  Sherwood Sugden & Company (division of Open Court Publishing Company) 800-815-2280
  Spence Publishing 888-773-6782

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 Transaction Publishers 888-999-6778