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[np, 1894. Broadside, 5-7/8" x 10," printed in two columns separated by a rule. Uniformly toned, Very Good plus. After a successful career as a mining company owner, investor, and landowner, Fletcher became politically prominent, first as a Whig and then as a Democrat. Fletcher was "an original Greenbacker, and believed in the people's money." When President Cleveland and the Democrats opposed Greenback policies, Fletcher "found a home with the People's party. . . and served three terms as its chairman" [Fletcher's online obituary at the Arkansas Democrat, 22 February 1900]. This Address, which Fletcher and Secretary J.W. Dollison sign at the end in type, asserts that with the decline of farm prices and wages, "There is no hope of relief save through the triumph of the measures proposed by the People's party." The 1894 elections resulted in a Democratic Governor; the People's Party candidate got just under 20% of the vote. Denouncing Republican and Democratic frauds, Fletcher urges exposure and… Read More

Little Rock, AR: P.A. Ladue, Printer., 1876. [3], 550, [1] pp. Bound in modern quarter morocco and marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine. Clean text, Very Good. The first and rarest of several editions. "The primary object of this little compilation is to furnish Justices of the Peace with a convenient manual to guide them in the performance of their official duties. We have attempted an explanation of the elementary principles of the civil and criminal law, to be administered in their courts." A detailed Index, appearing at the end, indicates the wide array of functions that these judicial officers performed. FIRST EDITION. Allen 751. OCLC 41041452 [2- Central AR Lib., Hendrix College]. Not in Marke, Harv. Law Cat.

Memphis, 1872. Original printed wrappers, stitched, 23pp. Wraps lightly dusted. Very Good. A description of this Arkansas corporation and a review of its mission, to provide rail service between Memphis and St. Louis. The report of the chief engineer, J.L. Meigs, informs on the character of the country traversed by the road. FIRST EDITION. Allen 7806 [1 copy].

[Kansas City, MO: Printed and electrotyped by Ramsey, Millet & Hudson, 1880. 8vo. 214pp, pictorial title page, plate. Original blindstamped blue cloth [spine ends and corners rubbed, some spotting], gilt lettered spine. Short closed tear in blank margin of one leaf [no text loss]. Pencil presentation on front endpaper, "Presented Dec. 25th, 1882 to Miss Mary Cooper by her Friend St. Nicholas." Good+. "You'll have to find the next copy; we never saw another, and haven't much hope. An interesting narrative of early-day life in Arkansas; Mississippi flat boating; Kaintuck in the early 1800's folk-life of the time; Chicago in 1804; log-cabin life; Louisville; Port Williams, etc. The latter half of the work is given over to the author's poetic effusions as vouchsafed in 22 separate and distinct spasms" [Eberstadt]. FIRST EDITION. 113 Eberstadt 190. Howes C841. Not in Clark, Soliday, Graff, Decker.

[Washington], 1850. 31st Cong., 1st Sess. HED45. 89pp, plus folding map by Marcy [route from Fort Smith to Santa Fe, and from Dona Ana to Fort Smith] and two plates by R.H. Kern [one of which is a View of Santa Fe from the East]. Disbound, light spotting, some loosening, else Very Good. Howes S500 aa. Wagner-Camp 192 note. III Wheat, Transmississippi West 681.

40th Cong., 2d Sess.: HED274., 1868. 46pp, disbound, Very Good. The 1868 reconstruction constitutions of these two states. FIRST EDITION.