The World is Mine: The Story of a Modern Monte Cristo by William Blake [FIRST EDITION] 1938

The World is Mine: The Story of a Modern Monte Cristo by William Blake

FIRST EDITION / FIFTH PRINTING [1938] SIMON & SCHUSTER

Antiquarian hardcover sans dust jacket in good condition.

Some discoloration to boards and some wear to edges.  Binding is very tight and book reads as new with just some very mild tanning.

The World Is Mine by William Blake is about the Never-Never Land of tired radicalism which is as misty as the romantic pastures of the true-love magazines. Its hero Don Cristobal Pinazon, is an anarchist with a deep hatred for the tyrants of Spain. This novel is merely a pretty personification of recent history. It is the work of a man of such hurried and hungry intellectual curiosity that he can never descend from convenient abstractions to human beings.