Timpetill by Manfred Michael

Timpetill

A Story for Children

by Manfred Michael

Illustrated by Richard Kennedy

Oxford University Press, 1959
Second impression
Black and white illustrated frontispiece, illustrated endpapers, illustrations in text
Hardcover

Condition: Good
some edge and shelf wear with some rubbing and bumping to corners and covers, ex-lib with stamps and stickers to endpapers, previous owners inscription on title page, re-enforced spine with black tape, dustjacket front pastedown on front cover, dustjacket wrap pastedown on inside front cover, pg. 47 loosening, slight lean (see photographs)

“Very early one morning a procession wound its way out of the little Swiss town of Timpetill.  All the grown-ups were leaving, exasperated with the rowdiness and mischief of the children, particularly the gang of troublemakers known as the Pirates.  They had decided to leave them to fend for themselves and be taught a lesson.  So when the children woke up they found themselves in a strange new world, with no grown-ups about to tell them what to do or cook their meals or solves their problems – no gas or water or electricity, for these had all been turned off…”