Edward B Lung (15 results)
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Language: English
Published by Binfords & Mort, Portland, 1974
- Hardcover
Seller: JP MOUNTAIN BOOKS, PORTLAND, OR, U.S.A.JP MOUNTAIN BOOKS
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Reprint. 1974 HARDCOVER REPRINT (very likely no dust jacket ever issued for this edition). Original hardcover binding with b/w pictorial covers and spine, black and gold lettering covers and spine. The book has clean covers, sharp corners, no fading, no previous owner marks or writing…on any pages, clean white pages with no foxing, solid binding -- close to new condition. The book measures 223mm tall x 147mm and has 419 pages + 4 unnumbered index pages + 1 advertisement page, 2 maps, 58 b/w photos, index. PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING OFFERED.
Published by Metropolitan Press, Portland, OR, 1967
- Hardcover
Seller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.Thomas J. Joyce And Company
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Alaska Centennial Edition. Octavo, 419 pages + Index, grey cloth. Scarce, no copy of this edition in WorldCat. This account of the Klondike Gold Rush, first published serially in "The Alaska Sportsman Magazine", was largely informed by the memories and diaries from 1897-1898 of Ella's father, Edw…ard Burchall Lung. Robert W. Service, the Poet of the Yukon, encouraged Ella to publish. It includes a chapter on Joaquin Miller, the reporter who befriended E. B. Lung. With 58 illustrations. Martinsen followed this memoir with a memoir of her mother, TRAIL TO NORTH STAR GOLD.
Published by Portlad, OR: Metropolitan Press, 1967., 1967
- Hardcover
Seller: Sara Armstrong - Books, Cedarville, CA, U.S.A.Sara Armstrong - Books
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Alaska Centennial Edition (originally 1956). 423pp, (5.5 x 8.5 inches), b&w photos, index. Near Fine/Very Good, hard cover with a dust jacket. The book itself has a trace of rubbing to spine ends and tips of corners. A little loose at the spine. But no bumps, tears or creases, no markings. The unclipped jacket is rubbed, has edg…ewear with chipping. Previous owner has put a piece of clear tape at head of DJ spine. Jacket is now in a protective cover. Diary of a young accountant from Tacoma. He "was there; he saw it all; and he reported it as he saw it." The title on the jacket is "Black Sand and Gold : A True Story of the Alaska-Klondike Gold Rush.".
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Language: English
Published by Metropolitan Press, Portland, Oregon, USA, 1967
- Hardcover
Seller: Post Horizon Booksellers, Nokomis, SK, CanadaPost Horizon Booksellers
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Add to basketCloth. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 419pp, [4] index. 58 indexed bw photos. Signed by Ella Lung Martinsen to ffep. Light grey cloth w dark blue lettering to cover and spine. Bumping to corners, head and tail. Binding square and sound. Photo illustrated DJ shows age toning, chipping with loss to top corner…s, top edges, head and tail. Creasing and wear to bottom corners. DJ preserved in BroDart cover. Octavo. Written by Ella Lung Martinsen, (1901-1977), from the diaries and verbal recollections of her father, Edward Burchall Lung, (1867-1956), supplemented with stories, anecdotes, and personal recollections of the author. First published in 1956 and republished in this Alaska Centennial Edition, 1967.
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Black Sand and Gold; A True Story of the Alaska-Klondike Gold Rush
Martinsen, Ella Lung (as told by her father, Edward B. Lung)
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Seller: Crossroads Books, Reno, NV, U.S.A.Crossroads Books
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Condition: Used - Near fine
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Condition: near fine. none. Fourth Edition. from the rear cover, "Ella Lung Martinsen knows the Klondike Gold Rush country personally. She was the first white child born at Dominion Creek, near Dawson, in Yukon Territory, and has still-vivid memories of pioneer living in the family's little log cabin." DZ6. hardcover, 8.75" x 5.…75", 419 pages, indexed pages not numbered, binding very good, pages clean.
Published by Vantage Press, New York, 1956
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Vashon Island Books, Vashon, WA, U.S.A.Vashon Island Books
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. In pictorial jacket over cloth boards, 8vo , 419pp. (minor light shelfwear to extremities, name to endpaper). Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Book.
Language: English
Published by Vantage Press, New York, 1956
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: RZABASBOOKs, Toronto, ON, CanadaRZABASBOOKs
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Inscription signed by Ella Lung Martinsen to front endpaper. Dust jacket has a large chip at top front and across head of spine, considerable rubbing, very long tear front flap to front cover.
Published by Metropolitan Press, Portland, Oregon, 1967
- Hardcover
Seller: Sea Chest Books, Tucumcari, NM, U.S.A.Sea Chest Books
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Add to basketCloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dark olive grey cloth octavo with black printing on the cove and spine, in near fine condition. Lightly bumped tail, with the slightest color change on the spine. No dust jacket. A memoir of the gold rush and of life in Dawson in the Klondike river region at the turn of the 19th century. Alaska Cente…nnial Edition. 419 numbered pp., plus index. Gold rush, Mining, Dawson, Klondike, Alaska, Canada, Memoir, Autobiography, History. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Published by Portland: Metropolitan Press, 1967
- Hardcover
Seller: Betterbks/ COSMOPOLITAN BOOK SHOP, Burbank, CA, U.S.A.Betterbks/ COSMOPOLITAN BOOK SHOP
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Reprint. Inscribed & signed by Ella Lung Martinsen on the first free endpaper. Octavo. B&W illustrations. Condition: DJ price-clipped with minor nicking to top edge; else fine in near fine DJ. 423 pages.
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Seller: Black Cat Hill Books, Oregon City, OR, U.S.A.Black Cat Hill Books
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Hardcover. Fourth Edition (1974). Good+: shows light wear to extremities; heavy rubbing and considerable soiling to the black, white, and greenish gold panels; slight spine lean; two pages creased at the upper corner; some thumbing and soiling to the outside edges of the text block; faint foxing to the front and rear endpapers;…the binding is secure; the text is clean. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A useful reading copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing some wear and numerous cosmetic imperfections. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo (8.8 x 5.85 x 1.35 inches). 419 pages + Index. Poem by Joaquin Miller and a Foreward, Map, and Preface by the author preceed the text. 58 vintage duotone photographs scattered throughout the text. Language: English. Weight: 27.4 ounces. Fourth Edition (1974). Hardback: No DJ 'as issued'; we have never seen a DJ on this fourth edition, which has a printed cloth over boards.
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Published by Vantage Press, New York, 1956
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- Signed
Seller: Looking for Books?, CORPUS CHRISTI, TX, U.S.A.Looking for Books?
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Book is clean and tight. Corners and ends of spine are bumped and shelf worn. All pages have top edge bent, not folded. Former bookshop stamp on front flyleaf. Author has signed and inscribed on front flyleaf. "Best wishes and hoping that you will enjoy my father's true Klondike g…old rush story Sincerely yours, Ella Lung Martinsen (born in the Klondike)." ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 410 pages; Signed by Author.
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Published by Vantage Press, NY, 1956
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Crestline, CA, U.S.A.curtis paul books, inc.
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. Original black cloth, spine gilt. Stated first edition. Inscribed to the ffep by Martinson. Hint of soil/shelfwear. The DJ is price clipped, slightly rubbed. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.
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The Alaska Sportsman Magazine, June 1952, Volume XVIII, Number 6 - Pictorial Number
Barkdull, Calvin H.; Meyers, Larry; Sarvela, Myrth Benjamin; Edward B. Lung; Wikstrom, Robert C.; Harrigan, J.M.; Keller, Al
Published by Alaska Magazine Publishing Company, Ketchikan, Alaska, 1952
- Softcover
- First Edition
- Magazine / Periodical
Seller: RareNonFiction, IOBA, Ladysmith, BC, CanadaRareNonFiction, IOBA
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Add to basketPaperback. Condition: Fair. First Edition. 58 pages. Dozens of great black and white photos. Features: Great vintage ads including Alaska salmon, Remington ammo, Ketchikan Spruce Mills, and many more; The opening of the Hart Highway in B.C.; I Saw Soapy Smith of Skagway Killed - Frank H. Reid gave his life to rid the city of org…anized anarchy - many photos with article; He Wrestled a Wolf; Blarney Stone at Sitka; Dawson; From Ketchikan to Barrow; Sourdough Pete (cartoon); The S.S. Humboldt; Honk the caribou - an honorary member of the Army; and more. Complete and intact. Above-average wear. Bit of writing on front cover. A worthy vintage copy. Welty, Charles; Wilde, Everett (illustrator).
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Published by Vantage Press, 1956
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Gregor Rare Books, Langley, WA, U.S.A.Gregor Rare Books
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Very Good plus, unclipped dust jacket with light edge wear. This is the true first edition of this personal account of the Alaska gold rush era. Ed Lung was a young accountant in Tacoma, Washington when he heard that gold was found…in the Klondike and set out to find his fortune. His diary of that search informs this first-hand account that is Black Sand and Gold. Lung paints a vivid picture of Dawson at the height of its prosperity with its gamblers, prostitutes, cutthroats, Indians, Mounties and desperadoes.
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Published by Vantage Press, New York; (1956)
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Seller: Alcuin Books, ABAA/ILAB, Scottsdale, AZ, U.S.A.Alcuin Books, ABAA/ILAB
Contact seller5-star sellerFirst Edition. Octavo. 419 pages. Enhanced with 40 early photographic images. Young accountant Ed Long left his Tacoma position in the Alaska Gold Rush. The account from his diary as copied by his daughter Ella Lung Martinsen. Here we read of the lawlessness of Skagway and its leader Soapy Smith. Robert W. Service, the poet of t…he Gold Rush, wrote: "One of the best descriptions of the Trail that I have come across". Joaquin Miller in the Gold Rush. A near fine copy bound in black cloth, spine lettering gilt, in a black unclipped pictorial dust jacket accented in white and yellow, wear to spine ends and corners, rear panel lightly rubbed. A very good copy.
