Shumate Dr Albert (25 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Limited Edition. LIMITED edition of 500 copies. Very light edge wear, clean copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Good.

Condition: Very Good. Signed by author on title page. Text block firm and clean, binding unblemished, boards straight, without highlights or underlining. Well packaged and promptly shipped from California. Partnered with Friends of the Library since 2010.

Hardcover. Condition: New. No Jacket. First Edition. This is a new hardcover copy, first edition, 1988, in original condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Limited Edition. PRINTED BY ARION PRESS.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Binding is tight and pages are clean and unmarked. No jacket. Writing on several front pages. Embossed stamp on one page. Inscribed by Author(s).

Near Fine condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 96 pages : illustrations. This is a fine copy in its original pictorial boards, with a previous owner's signature at the upper fore-corner of the front pastedown and a warm inscription from Dr Shumate at its half title, but with no other markings. 380 grams. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Pictorial hardcover inscribed to the half title page by Albert Shumate, editor/intro, to Oscar Lewis. Oscar Lewis was a historian who wrote about the far west; his best-known book was "The Big Four. " Trace shelfwear else fine condition. ; Gold Rush; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 96 pages; Signed by Author.…

one of 500 copies published ed. hardback very good condition in red cloth. no dust jacket. there is a pen gift inscriptuion on the dedication page. shipping via USPS.

Hardcover. Condition: Collectible - Very Good. Limited First Edition. 38 pages, 8vo. No DJ. Limited Edition of 500 copies. Signed and inscribed by the author on front endpaper, thus: For ---- ----, a friend of many years -- Sincerely, A. Shumate". Red cloth boards with gilt lettering. Minor shelfwear. Tightly bound, no marks. Volume is in Very Good condition. Signed by Author(s).…

Stapled wraps. Condition: Very Good+. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. This edition is limited to 500 unnumbered copies. The books were printed at the Arion Press. This is a trade sized booklet with cardstock covers and a string binding. The booklet is in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. "She was the daughter of José Darío Argüello, the Spanish governor of Alta California and Presidio Commandante. She was born at the Presidio of San Francisco and at 15 she fell in love with Nikolai Rezanov, the visiting head of a Russian expedition to Alaska. His expedition had hard times in California and his involvement with Argüello was at first motivated by practical considerations, since the Spanish Crown did not permit giving aid to Russians. But the pair fell in love, and Rezanov returned to Russia to ask the Tsar for permission to marry Argüello. During his return trip across Siberia in 1807, he fell from his horse, became sick and died in Krasnoyarsk, where he is buried. " (from Wikipedia).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. Frontispiece portrait, with textual photographs. Inscribed by Shumate on the title page. Original red cloth binding, with gilt stamping. A fine copy. Inscribed by Author.

Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Inscribed by the author "For George Steinmetz With very best wishes Albert Shumate 1/24/92". Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar). 87 pps.

Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy. 38 pps.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. - San Francisco old west stage coach history, Civil War, etc.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Printed in red and black by Lawton Kennedy. Pamphlet describing the dedication ceremonies of a plaque commemorating the designation of the church as a California Registered Historical Landmark, January 11, 1966. Pictorial upper cover, 4to, [4pp]. A scarce printing piece and historical document. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. B/w Cover Illustration (illustrator). Book.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very fine. 1st Edition. First edition. One of 500 copies printed at the Arion Press. [12]pp. Title page illustration. Stiff purple wrappers, sewn, paper label to front cover. A very fine copy. The story of this famous California romance. Presents the text of a lecture given by the author to the Gleeson Library Associates, University of San Francisco. Book.…

cloth. Condition: Good. 1st Ed 38pp, frontis, inscribed, ltd ed of 500 copies, photos, index, cloth nice A member of the first vigilante committee of San Francisco, Curtis later fought the Paiutes, served in the Civil War, later becoming involved with the railroads in Idaho.

Cloth. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Custom Clear Mylar. First Edition. 38 pages. SIGNED/INSCRIBED by Author to California historian Doyce Nunis in ink on the front free endpaper, "For Doyce Nunis / California's great historian! / With best wishes / Al Shumate". First edition limited to 500 un-numbered copies. red cloth. 6 1/2" x 9 1/4". Three illustrations from vintage photographs, including a frontispiece portrait of General Curtis. Index. The biography of Bostonian James F. Curtis, who came to San Francisco during the Gold Rush, became a fireman and a member of the first Committee of Vigilance in 1851. Thereafter, he became San Francisco's first Chief of Police, retiring in 1858. As a Major, he joined the volunteer campaign against the Paiutes in Nevada in 1860. In the Civil War, he served in various campaigns along the Pacific Coast, and was discharged as a Brigadier General in 1866. Thereafter, he was involved in Idaho railroads and was elected Idaho's Secretary of State in 1892. He returned to Boston in 1896, where he died in 1914 at the age of 88. An As New copy, now in a custom clear mylar protective jacket.…

Gilt decorated hard cover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy. 38 pps.

Decorated hard cover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy. 96 pps.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Unpagenated, 8vo. The San Francisco Westerners: Argonaut: Number Eight, February 1980. Reprinted by the San Francisco Corral of The Westerners to honor the Centennial of Robert Louis Stevensons visit to San Francisco as presented by Dr. Albert Shumate, February 26, 1980. Stapled white soft wraps, black title on front cover. Includes poem by Bret Harte: San Francisco (From the Sea). Frontispiece illustration: Stevenson Memorial, Portsmouth Square. Shelfwear: light scuffing along edges and covers, light tanning along cover edges and page edges. Tightly bound with very clean and crisp pages. No marks. Volume is in Very Good condition. …

First Edition. Inscribed and signed by the author. First edition. Very Good condition. Signed.