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Lane, Rose Wilder.
The Peaks of Shala: Being a Record of Certain Wanderings among the Hill-Tribes of Albania.
Publisher: Chapman & Dodd, London and Sydney;
Date of Publication: 1912
Stock Code: 15431
First British edition. Octavo, pp., 224, plus folding photographic panorama frontispiece, 9 photographic plates, and folding map. Collated and complete. Publisher’s original midnight blue cloth; titled in gilt to spine; publisher’s stamp in blind to upper board; white end-papers. Bookplate of the Midland Association of Mountaineers to front (pasted over another bookplate); call number sticker to facing end-paper; bookseller’s sticker to end. Soiling and evidence of adhesive to cloth; spine slightly sunned; corners a touch rubbed and softened; upper hinge cracked but holding; binding otherwise strong and square. Offsetting to end-papers; light scattered foxing throughout. A good complete copy. An account of mountaineering in the Dukagjin Highlands, by American libertarian novelist and journalist Rose Wilder Lane (1886-1968). Lane was daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of ‘Little House on the Prairie’. £150.00