Welcome to Red and Black Publishers. We are a small publishing company in St Petersburg, Florida, specializing in books about history, political and social criticism, classic literature and science, alternative religions, and exotic pets.
All of our books are available from Amazon.com, Amazon.UK, or BarnesandNoble.Com . They can also be ordered through any bookstore.
All of our printed books are available as ebooks for the Amazon Kindle reader, and we also have a long list of ebooks that are not yet available in print but are now available in the Kindle format..
Available Titles in Print
By Category:
History -- American and World History
The History; An Account of the Persian War on Greece, Including the Naval Battle at Salamis, the Battle with Athens at Marathon, and With the Spartans at Thermopylae, by Herodotus
Selections from Plutarch's Lives, by Plutarch
The Gallic Wars: Julius Caesar's Account of the Roman Conquest of Gaul, by Julius Caesar
The Twelve Caesars: The Lives of the Roman Emperors, by Seutonius
On Roman Military Matters: A 5th Century Training Manual in Organization, Weapons and Tactics, As Practiced by the Roman Legions, by Vegetius
The Anglo Saxon Chronicle: A History of England From Roman Times to the Norman Conquest
The Digger Movement: Radical Communalism in the English Civil War, by Lewis H Berens
Buccaneers of America: A Firsthand Account of Life with the Caribbean Pirates Pierre la Grande, Francis Lolonois, and Captain Henry Morgan, by John Esquemeling
Swamp Fox: General Francis Marion and his Guerrilla Fighters of the American Revolutionary War, by William Dobein James
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, by Benjamin Franklin
Writings of Thomas Paine: A Collection of Pamphlets from America's Most Radical Founding Father, by Thomas Paine
The Federalist Papers, by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and James Madison
The Great French Revolution 1789-1793, by Peter Kropotkin
The Bounty Mutiny: Captain William Bligh's Firsthand Account of the Last Voyage of HMS Bounty, by William Bligh
Life Under Slavery: Autobiographies of Three American Slaves, by Linda Brent, Henry Bibb, and Kate Drumgoold
Chancellorsville and Gettysburg: An Eyewitness Account of the Pivotal Battles of the Civil War, by General Abner Doubleday
Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson: A Firsthand Account of the Army of Northern Virginia with Robert E Lee in the Civil War, by Edward A Moore
The Autobiography of General Ulysses S Grant: Memoirs of the Civil War, by Ulysses S Grant
Memoirs of General William T Sherman: Shiloh, Vicksburg, and the March to the Sea, by William T Sherman
Recollections and Letters of General Robert E Lee, by Robert E Lee
An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill, by William F Cody
The Boy General: Story of the Life of Major-General George A Custer
The Rough Riders: Teddy Roosevelt's Firsthand Account of the Cuban Campaign During the Spanish-American War, by Theodore Roosevelt
History of Early Aviation, by Orville Wright, Wilbur Wright, and William Claxton
Insurgent Mexico: With Pancho Villa in the Mexican Revolution, by John Reed
To the South Pole: An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the Fram, 1910-1912, by Roald Amundsen
The Loss of the SS Titanic: Its Story and Its Lessons, by Lawrence Beesley, one of the survivors
The Titanic Reports: The Official Conclusions of the 1912 Inquiries into the Titanic Disaster, by the US Senate and the British Wreck Commission
Kitchener's Mob: A Firsthand Account of the Adventures of an American Volunteer in the British Army during the First World War, by James Norman Hall
The Red Fighter Pilot: The Autobiography of the Red Baron, by Manfred von Richthofen
History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviks: US Military Intervention in Russia 1918-1919, by Moore, Meade and Jahns
Rise and Fall of the Leninist State: A Marxist History of the Soviet Union, by Lenny Flank
FDR: Selected Speeches of President Franklin D Roosevelt, by Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Fireside Chats: Radio Addresses to the American People 1933-1944, by Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Island Battles of the Pacific: Iwo Jima and Okinawa, by US Marine Corps Historical Branch
The Aleutians Campaign: The Official Navy History of the Only World War Two Invasion of US Soil, by the Naval Historical Center
The Nuremberg Nazi Trial: Excerpts From the Testimony of Herman Goering, Albert Speer, Auschwitz Commandant Rudolf Hoess, and Others, by Herman Goering, Albert Speer
JFK: Selected Speeches of President John F Kennedy
At the Edge of the Abyss: A Declassified Documentary History of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Edited by Lenny Flank
This New Ocean: The Official History of Project Mercury, by Loyd Swenson, James M Grimwood, and Charles C Alexander
Chicago Seven: Testimony from the 1968 Democratic Convention Conspiracy Trial, by Abbie Hoffman, Rennie Davis, and others
The Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Documentary History of the Struggle for Peace in Palestine, Edited by Lenny Flank
Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans: 1976 US Senate Report on Illegal Wiretaps and Domestic Spying by the FBI, CIA and NSA, by the Church Committee
Deception by Design: The Intelligent Design Movement in America, by Lenny Flank
Hell's Fire: A Documentary History of the American Atomic and Thermonuclear Weapons Projects, From Hiroshima to the Cold War to the War on Terror
Selected Speeches and Writings of Nelson Mandela: The End of Apartheid in South Africa
The Great Communicator: Selected Speeches of President Ronald Reagan
My Fellow Americans: Presidential Inaugural Addresses from George Washington to Barack Obama
State of the Union: Selected Annual Presidential Addresses to Congress, from George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Barack Obama, and Others
Social and Political Criticism -- Socialism, Anarchism, Marxism
Essential Writings of Karl Marx: Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844; The Communist Manifesto; Wage Labor and Capital; and Critique of the Gotha Program, by Karl Marx
Writings of Rosa Luxemburg: Reform or Revolution, The National Question, and Other Essays, by Rosa Luxemburg
Syndicalism: Writings On Revolutionary Socialist Unions, by Georges Sorel, Andre Tridon, Bertrand Russell, and John Spargo
Non-Leninist Marxism: Writings on the Workers Councils, by Gorter, Pannekoek, Pankhurst and Ruhle
Catechism of Karl Marx's Capital: A Beginner's Introduction to the Socialist Analysis of Capitalism, by Lewis Cass Fry
The Workers Opposition in the Russian Communist Party: The Fight for Workers Democracy in the Soviet Union
Reds, White and Blue: An Anthology of American Socialism and Communism 1880-1920
Minimanual of the Urban Guerrilla, by Carlos Marighella
My Two Years in Russia: An American Anarchist's Disillusionment, and the Betrayal of the Russian Revolution by Lenin's Soviet Union, by Emma Goldman
Selected Writings from Mikhail Bakunin, by Mikhail Bakunin
The Black Flag: Peter Kropotkin on Anarchism, by Peter Kropotkin
Writings of Eugene V Debs: A Collection of Essays by America's Most Famous Socialist, by Eugene V Debs
Socialism and the Irish Rebellion: Writings From James Connolly, by James Connolly
Writings of Daniel DeLeon: A Collection of Essays by One of the Founders of American Revolutionary Socialism, by Daniel DeLeon
Hegemony and Counter-Hegemony: Marxism, Capitalism, And Their Relation to Sexism, Racism, Nationalism, And Authoritarianism, by Lenny Flank
IWW: A Documentary History
History of the Paris Commune of 1871, by Prosper Olivier Lissagaray, translated by Eleanor Marx
Writings on the Paris Commune, by Karl Marx, Nikolai Bakunin, Peter Kroptokin, and Vladimir Lenin
Contradictions of Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics, by Lenny Flank
Marxist Economics: A Popular Introduction to the Three Volumes of Karl Marx's Das Kapital
Philosophy of Revolution: Towards a Non-Leninist Marxism, by Lenny Flank
Proposed Roads to Freedom: Socialism, Anarchism, Syndicalism, by Bertrand Russell
Syndicalism, Industrial Unionism and Socialism, by John Spargo
Guild Socialism: A Plan for Economic Democracy, by GDH Cole
History of the Fabian Society: The Origins of English Socialism, by Edward R Pease
Rise and Fall of the Leninist State: A Marxist History of the Soviet Union, by Lenny Flank
The Communistic Societies of the United States: Harmony, Oneida, the Shakers, and Others, by Charles Nordhoff
The Digger Movement: Radical Communalism in the English Civil War, by Lewis H Berens
The Great French Revolution 1789-1793, by Peter Kropotkin
Simplify: Selected Writings from Henry David Thoreau, by Henry David Thoreau
Writings of Thomas Paine: A Collection of Pamphlets from America's Most Radical Founding Father, by Thomas Pain
Chicago Seven: Testimony From the 1968 Democratic Convention Conspiracy Trial, by Abbie Hoffman, Rennie Davis, and others
Go to Social and Political Criticism Section
Classics -- Classic Literature and Works of Science
Beowulf, translated by Frances B Gummere
Myths and Legends of All Nations: Famous Stories From the Greek, German, English, Spanish, Scandinavian, Danish, French, Russian, Bohemian, Italian, and Other Sources, edited by Logan Marshall
The Art of War, by Sun Tzu
The Prince, by Nicolo Machiavelli
The Iliad, by Homer, translated by Samuel Butler
The Odyssey, by Homer, translated by Samuel Butler
Simplify: Selected Writings from Henry David Thoreau, by Henry David Thoreau
Stories From 1001 Arabian Nights: Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, The Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, and Others
Aesop's Fables
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
Tales of Mother Goose
War of the Worlds
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Viking Sagas: Erik the Red, Grettir the Strong, and Kormac the Skald
Le Morte D'Arthur: The Book of King Arthur and of His Noble Knights of the Round Table, Volume 1
Le Morte D'Arthur: The Book of King Arthur and of His Noble Knights of the Round Table, Volume 2
Australian Legendary Tales: Folk-Lore of the Noongahburrahs, by Mrs K Langloh Parker
Origin of Species and The Foundations of Origin of Species: The Complete Texts of Darwin's Original Unpublished Papers Describing the Theory of Evolution, and the First Edition of the Book that Presented it to the World, by Charles Darwin
Relativity: Einstein's Theory of Spacetime, Time Dilation, Gravity and Cosmology, by Albert Einstein
Go to Classics of Literature and Works of Science Section
Alternative Religions -- Taoism, Buddhism, Zen
Essential Writings of Christian Mysticism: Medieval Mystic Paths to God, by Jacob Boehme and Meister Eckhart
Writings of the Sufi: The Mystical Tradition in Islam, by Omar Khayyam, Pir-O-Murshid Khan, and Farid Attar
Essential Writings of Taoism: The Tao te Ching and The Chuang Tzu
Essential Writings of Buddhism; The Diamond Sutra and the Lotus Sutra, translated by Dwight Goddard and H Kern
Zen Buddhism: The Religion of the Samurai, by Kaiten Nukariya
The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana, translated by Richard Burton
The Gateless Gate: A Collection of Zen Koan, by Mumon
Dhammapada: A Collection of Verses From the Pali Canon of Buddhism
Siddhartha, by Herman Hesse
Essential Writings of Confucianism: The Analects of Confucius and The Mencius
Bhagavad Gita: The Epic Poem at the Root of Hinduism
Go to Alternative Religions Section
Exotic Pets -- Iguanas, snakes, scorpions, millipedes, tropical cockroaches
Iguanas: Their Biology and Captive Care, by Lenny Flank
Invertebrates as Pets: Keeping and Caring for Millipedes, Centipedes, Scorpions, and Tropical Cockroaches, by Lenny Flank
Beginner's Guide to Keeping Venomous Snakes, by Lenny Flank
All of our print books are available in electronic form, formatted for Amazon's Kindle Reader. In addition, Red and Black Publishers has a long list of other titles that are also formatted as ebooks for the Kindle reader, but have not yet been released by us in print form. These are currently available in Amazon's Kindle store.
A complete listing of our available Kindle titles can be found in the EBooks section.
We
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1-4 copies, 20% discount + shipping. Titles may be mixed and matched.
5+ copies, 40% discount and free shipping in the continental US. Titles may be mixed and matched.
All of our titles are non-returnable.
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Red and Black Publishers
PO Box 7542
St Petersburg, FL 33734
Please note that our books are printed to order; we don't keep any in stock. It typically takes about a week from the time the order is received, until it is printed and ships. So you should plan on allowing 2-3 weeks before you actually receive your order.
Red and Black Publishers, PO Box 7542, St Petersburg, Florida 33734