Chosen People
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: First Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Condition remarks: Condition: Very good overall, a genuine first edition, first printing in a complete and unclipped original dust jacket. Jacket: Original price-intact jacket (7/6 net, unclipped), with the expected tanning/browning to the spine and panel edges common to this printer's stock, light creasing at the folds, and minor edge wear, but no major chips, tears, or losses; both flaps present and complete. Page Condition: Light foxing on the prelims and scattered through the book block, otherwise clean and tight. Markings: None; no inscriptions, bookplates, or prior ownership marks visible. Binding: Original publisher's blue cloth boards with gilt spine lettering, crisp and legible, boards square and firm with only minor scattered spotting to the front panel — a sound, unrestored first-issue binding.
In the sunburned, unforgiving landscape of rural Australia, Chosen People by Seaforth Mackenzie presents a visceral portrait of a community bound together by blood, belief, and the slow violence of exclusion. The novel chronicles the lives of its characters with unflinching honesty, tracing the intricate web of relationships, prejudices, and quiet desperation that define a society convinced of its own righteousness. Mackenzie's prose cuts through sentiment to reveal the raw contradictions of human nature — the desire to belong set against the cruelty of those who decide who is worthy of belonging. Seaforth Mackenzie, the pen name of the Australian author Kenneth Seaforth Mackenzie, brings to this work the same lyrical intensity and psychological precision that distinguished his celebrated novel The Young Desire It. His writing inhabits a tradition of Australian literary realism that refuses easy resolution, instead holding its characters — and its readers — accountable to uncomfortable truths. Chosen People stands as a quietly devastating meditation on identity, community, and the terrible cost of otherness, leaving one to wonder whether belonging is ever truly a gift, or merely another form of captivity.
Author: Seaforth Mackenzie
Format: Hardback
Published: 1938, Jonathan Cape
Genre: Modern fiction
Edition: First Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Condition remarks: Condition: Very good overall, a genuine first edition, first printing in a complete and unclipped original dust jacket. Jacket: Original price-intact jacket (7/6 net, unclipped), with the expected tanning/browning to the spine and panel edges common to this printer's stock, light creasing at the folds, and minor edge wear, but no major chips, tears, or losses; both flaps present and complete. Page Condition: Light foxing on the prelims and scattered through the book block, otherwise clean and tight. Markings: None; no inscriptions, bookplates, or prior ownership marks visible. Binding: Original publisher's blue cloth boards with gilt spine lettering, crisp and legible, boards square and firm with only minor scattered spotting to the front panel — a sound, unrestored first-issue binding.
In the sunburned, unforgiving landscape of rural Australia, Chosen People by Seaforth Mackenzie presents a visceral portrait of a community bound together by blood, belief, and the slow violence of exclusion. The novel chronicles the lives of its characters with unflinching honesty, tracing the intricate web of relationships, prejudices, and quiet desperation that define a society convinced of its own righteousness. Mackenzie's prose cuts through sentiment to reveal the raw contradictions of human nature — the desire to belong set against the cruelty of those who decide who is worthy of belonging. Seaforth Mackenzie, the pen name of the Australian author Kenneth Seaforth Mackenzie, brings to this work the same lyrical intensity and psychological precision that distinguished his celebrated novel The Young Desire It. His writing inhabits a tradition of Australian literary realism that refuses easy resolution, instead holding its characters — and its readers — accountable to uncomfortable truths. Chosen People stands as a quietly devastating meditation on identity, community, and the terrible cost of otherness, leaving one to wonder whether belonging is ever truly a gift, or merely another form of captivity.