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Blue Cloth Hardback. Condizione: Very Good Plus. First Edition. 1990. First edition thus - limited to 75 copies of which this is No. 1. (unsigned but with a handwritten note with doodling by the author, dated 18/8/64). 83pp. Stella Aldwinckle (1907-1989), was born in South Africa and later educated in England. At age 21, she felt herself called to help people find God and returned to England for further education and attended St. Anne's College, Oxford and read Theology. After Oxford, she taught Divinity in Yorkshire and at St. Christopher's College in Blackheath for several years before deciding that her true desire was to serve in a pastoral rather than academic capacity. Stella returned to Oxford University and served on the Oxford Pastorate as Chaplain for Women Students from 1941-1966. The Oxford University Socratic Club grew out of Stella's ministry in 1942, and became one of her most well-known legacies. The Club brought prominent atheists, agnostics, and Christians together to discuss matters of theology and philosophy in an open forum setting for Undergraduates. C.S. Lewis served as the Club's president from its inception until 1954. This book is a philosophical work written in the form of a poem. The book consists of the original softcover edition of salmon-pink wrappers and lettered in red and black, bound into blue cloth covered boards with gold titling on the spine and the handwritten sheet of notes by the author inserted into a pocket at the end of the book. The book is in excellent condition and the contents are tight and clean with a slight printing error that has caused a shadow of the text on pages 66 and 83. There is no inscription. The book has a clear glassine wrapper that is in very good condition with a chip on the top front corners and 1" tear on the top front corner. With Handwritten Notes by the.…