first edition
by Martinsen, Ella Lung
Portland, Maine: Metropolitan Press, 1969. First Edition. Octavo. 359 pp. Photographic illustrations. The story of author's parents, Edward B. and Velma D. Lung, who kept diaries and wrote memoirs of their quest for gold while raising three children in a primitive cabin near Dawson City on the Yukon River. Author was the first white child born at Dominion Creek. A true adventure story. Bound in gray cloth lettered in purple, spine lettering purple, previous owner's name, Purple stamp on front free endpaper "Dawson City Yukon Canada" very good copy in clipped pictorial dust jacket with rubbing along the edges and wear to spine ends.
(Inventory #: 009604)