Sea Fog by J.S. Fletcher - 1925

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926. 1st. Good+. No edition notes on copyright page; first or contemporary subsequent. No dust jacket Grey cloth over boards with red letters on front and spine. General wear to the covers, but minimal draying and no cuts. Publisher stamp on back lower right near hinge. Top fore edge stained red. Inscription on ffep. Interior lightly toned, otherwise clean and clear. Note on the type at the back.

London: Herbert Jenkins Red cloth titled in black on spine and front board, pictorial illstn on front board. Tight and square, clean boards, part faded at the spine, foxed edges, light foxing in endpapers, small name on front pastedown.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926., 1926. First edition. First U. S. edition. Near fine, bright copy in dust jacket very lightly faded at the spine with light wear to the spine ends and corners. A young man, tiring of town life, sets out on foot to tour the English country. A few nights out he sleeps in a broken-down, lonely old mill, and while there witnesses at dawn two men struggling. The early morning is heavy with fog and he cannot clearly see what is happening, but one man kills the other. He goes to the nearest town and tells what he has seen but the townsmen don't seem to show much interest. Do they have some reason to be protective of the old mill or do they know something about the men in the struggle?