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The central office is closed on the observance days of new years, memorial day, july 4th, labor day, thanksgiving and christmas. I have provided a link in a couple of places on this page for your convenience, so you can get to the search page. Alcoholics anonymous publishes several books, reports, pamphlets, and other media, including a periodical known as the aa grapevine. The second edition, published in 1955, reached a total of more than 1,150,500 copies. First edition alcoholics anonymous big book reprint i recoveryshop. They were collected over a lifetime by ken roberts, who recently chose profiles in history to sell the original typed working manuscript for the big book of alcoholics anonymous. Alcoholics anonymous first edition first printings 1939. The fundamental premise of alcoholics anonymous, as described in the big book, is that the individual alcoholic is powerless over alcohol and cannot recover without the help of a higher power. New stories have been added to the personal histories.
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Gold gilding strong 90% front board, 100% spine top, 70% spine bottom. With publication of the second edition in 1955, the third edition in 1976. Detailsclosed captioned dvd of the fourth edition of a. Alcoholics anonymous first edition, thirteenth printing 1950 big book.
The text got this name because the first edition of the book had rather thick pages, making the book even thicker than its content would suggest. Bound in publishers dark blue cloth with title stamped in blind on the front cover and in gilt on the spine. B0 75th anniversary edition big book to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the historic publication of alcoholics anonymous in april 1939, the 20 general service conference approved the creation of this facsimile edition of the first printing of the first edition. Alcoholics anonymous first edition, first printing inscribed and signed by aas cofounder bill wilson.
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