Thompkins Walker (3 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 23 cm. 42 pages plus a page of credits. Santa Barabara County's ubiquitous historian provides a history of the Stearns Wharf, originally constructed in 1872 and making the village a port. Quite rare. Some general wear; top staple pulling from the cover, otherwise very good.

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Good to Very Good-. Vol. 6, No.4. Cover art by Bob Stanley. Includes "Outlaw Thickets" (novel) by Les Savage, Jr.; "Ride with the Devil" (novelette) by Joseph Chadwick; "Bar-Nothing Red" by Eugene Cunningham; "Ramshackle Ranch" by S. Omar Barker; "Sam's Son and Delighted" by Walker A. Thompkins; "Petticoats and Dairy Mammas" (fact feature) by T. J. Kerttula & D. L. McDonald; "The Starr Carbine, Model 1858" (pictorial feature) by Randy Steffan. Departments: "Pick Your Terror" by Eric Manders; "Free-for-All". Illustrated by Earl Sherwan, Erv Schweig, and Bill Terry. Bug-scarring inside cover; creasing; tanning; spine twist. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 12mo. (20 cm.) [7]8-256p. Red cloth with blue letters on the front cover and the spine. Very minor wear to extremities with nothing rubbed through, top and bottom of spine just barely beginning to fray, lower rear corner bumped, some minor evidence of silverfish grazing, textblock ever so slightly canted, spine very slightly faded, cloth clean and bright, else very good to near fine with no internal markings. No dust jacket. Walter A. Tompkins was a prolific writer of both fiction and non-fiction, most of the latter having to do with Southern California, especially the Santa Barbara area. BUSHWACK BULLETS is one of his earlier pieces of fiction and is relatively rare. Thompson's papers are located at the University of California at Santa Barbara. "Hap and Everett, adopted children of the Yaqui County sheriff and his wife, were known as the Kingman twins. Actually Hap was the son of the upright rancher Warren Allen, who had been killed by bushwack bullets, while Everett's father was the ruffianly cattle thief, Dev Hewett. The boys were ignorant of their own identity until they cam of age. And then, for reasons of his own, the crooked lawyer entrusted with telling them the truth pretended that Hap was the rustler's son, and gave to him Hewett's legacy: a six-gun, and instructions to use it to murder Dev Hewett's ancient enemy." [from the font matter in the book].