Chimney Sweep Tower by Rita Kissin

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good, Slipcase: Very Good. 1937. Henry Holt and Company. 1st Edition. Illustrated. Signed and inscribed by author.

Inscribed "To Miss Mary Oxley who knew the Chimney Sweep Tower when - - - with thanks and good wish from Rita Hissin Nov 1939"

There is a rich sense of atmosphere in this story of Kate and Oskar in Dettelbach, a medieval Bavarian town 300 years older than Nuremberg. Dettelbach is little known and has never before been used as a background for fiction.

Oskar, a chimney0sweeo's helper, lives in a funny little wooden shack on top of an ancient tower. He longs to be a musician, but chimney sweeps are too poor to buy violins or pay for lessons. However, when Kate comes from Vienna to visit her grandmother, things immediately begin to happen. The children are trapped in the old tower cellar and hear strange music; they take a midnight ride on a lumber raft and spend anxious moments n a gypsy wagon.