213 pp., vii. '2' in number line. Following the Preface, Contents divided into 25 parts: (1) "Address to the Poets of Hungary"; (2) "Genius"; (3) "Arts and Crafts"; (4) "The Bible in Europe"; (5) "Poetry and Obscenity"; (6) "Goddesses and Obossoms"; (7) "The Universal Paradise"; (8) "Mushrooms and Religion"; (9) "The Two Births of Dionysus"; (10)"What Has Gone Wrong?"; (11) "Rationality"; (12) "The Greek Tradition"; (13) "Ovid and the Libertines"; (14) "Birds and Men"; (15) "The Kaiser's War" (16) "Fighting Courage"; (17) "A Soldier's Honour"; (18) "The Absentee Fusilier"; (19) "The Inner Ear"; (20) "The Pentagon of Isis"; (21) "Solomon's Seal"; (22)"The Heart Shape"; (23) "The Sufic Chequer-board"; (24) "The Nine of Diamonds"; (25) "Speaking Freely". Shiny dustwrapper not price-clipped ($6.95) with Author and Title lettering in large white letters on most of front cover, superimposed upon background photo-illustration on full front cover of an ancient, oval-shaped, bas-relief golden-brown, object like a large jug or vessel; black and white sketch of Author by Aemilia Laracuen on full rear cover. 2" tear up the rear cover left edge and a 1/2" tear down the top of that edge, with minor tip wear at spine and cover corners: Worn locations and tears now backed with Archival tape and placed in Brodart mylar for additional protection and aesthetic appeal. Book itself was well-protected by dustwrapper, although on rear cover beneath dw there are four very superficial long scratches which do not tear the cloth and can ony be seen wiggling the book in the light just right: truly nugatory,but there you have it. Tight binding (NO creases); sharp corners (NO bumps or curls); NO remainder marks. Clean text. Previous owner name and owner location at top right ffep, that of "B. Young / Cambridge". From the Harvard Gazette (January 17, 2002) "William Clinton Burriss Young ?55, formerly associate dean of freshmen in Harvard College, died in Cambridge on Jan. 8 after a long illness. He was 68 years old. / For more than 35 years, as a proctor in Massachusetts Hall, assistant dean, and associate dean, Young guided successive cohorts of incoming Harvard undergraduates, helping many of them to survive their first year in and around the Yard. / ?It may sound simplistic to say we will never see another like him,? said Dean of Freshmen Elizabeth Studley Nathans, ?but that is in fact true. He devoted his life to this institution, and we are all ? students and colleagues alike ? diminished by his death.? Despite dw peccadilloes, book itself appears little read; Crisp. Collectible copy.

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Title: Difficult Questions, Easy Answers: A Collection of Essays (from the personal library of Burriss Young)
Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, NY
Publication Date: 1973
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0385044690
ISBN 13: 9780385044691
Binding: Hardcover
Illustrator: Aemilia Laracuen
Edition: 1st Edition
Printing: 2nd Printing
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

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Essays by the great novelist and poet Great writer and eanest issues.

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Retired academic's reference library with specialization in philosophy, religion, science, and mathematics--all scholarly subject areas; Pre-Socratics to contemporary; biographies; some series collections. General stock also, including fiction, poetry, literary criticism, mysteries, some foreign language, children's, history, sociology, psychology, education. Some signed copies.

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