Rapier James (5 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. RARE. NO DATE STATED. SC - Pictorial wraps with B/W Sepia toned Photography. Unusual little book created by the Students of Texas Tech studying the Pueblo Architecture in Taos, New Mexico. Clean copy; no markings or flaws to state. 8vo. 2 pages text 24 leaves/pages which include title page; 2 pages text, 17 full page photos and one page for patrons/credits. --B.R. Box 115.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. The second of 5 issues of a little magazine edited by James M Singer Jr. in the late 1950's. Emergent featured poetry, prose, art and photography. This issue with contributions from Gil Sorrentino, William J. Margolis, Curtis Zahn, W. Arthur Boggs, Alan Donovan, Emilie Glen, Alden A. Nowlan, Edward Reed, Ben Tibbs, Roy MacGregor Hastie, O. W. Crane, and James Boyer May. 5.5" x 8.5" softcover book, saddle-stapled in card wraps. 24pp. with black and white illustrations. Moderate/heavy scuffs to covers. From collection of a tobacco smoker with attendant tanning to spine and a very faint aroma of smoke within. Binding solid and interior pages crisp, quite bright, and unmarked. In very good overall condition. Rare.

No Binding. Condition: Good. First Edition. Original Printed patent disbound with printed front blue wrapper present but not the back wrapper (both often lacking in early patents) About 27cm by 18 cm some wear and tear due to the disbinding.

No Binding. Condition: Good. First Edition. Original Printed patent disbound with printed front blue wrapper present but not the back wrapper (both often lacking in early patents) About 27cm by 18 cm some wear and tear due to the disbinding.

Condition: Fine. A single page document, signed by Rapier, showing collection revenue from a retail dealer in malt liquors. James Rapier was an African-American politician during the reconstruction era who served as United States Representative from Alabama from 1873-1875. After losing a re-election bid to Jaramiah Haralson in 1877, Rapier turned his attention to the emigration movement. "Appointed collector of internal revenue for the Second Alabama District in 1877, he used the office to urge former slaves to leave Alabama and settle in the West. The black man, he asserted, would never be accorded equal rights or economic opportunity in the South. He traveled several times to Kansas, purchased land for a settlement in Wabaunsee County along the route of the Kansas-Pacific Railway, gave pro-emigration speeches in Alabama, and testified in Washington, D.C., before a Senate committee on emigration." - ANB. A fine example of a scarce signature, with minimal wear to the document.