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Includes an all new original audio recording and complete basic text. There have been numerous reprints and revisions, in addition to translations into dozens of languages. There are stories, steps, theories, and personal advice from a plethora of different people inside the big blue book. The book is published by alcoholics anonymous world services. That was a time when a handful of alcoholics discovered a solution to their seemingly hopeless state of mind and body. It is the basic text of the fellowship of alcoholics anonymous, and has helped large numbers of alcoholic men and women, young and old, recover as of december 2009, 30,664,881 copies of the big book have been sold or otherwise distributed source aa gso ny. January 1968 aa grapevine big book stories updated 4 of 5 this is the fourth article in the grapevine s series by authors of the personal histories in the big book, alcoholics anonymous. There is a no apparent writing in the book and there are no missing pages, the cover has general soiling, the spine ends are rolled, the gilt lettering on the front cover is dull and about 95% present, the gilt. More than 300,000 copies of the first edition are now in circulation. By working the steps, following the traditions, doing service, and finding a higher power, they are now living sober in the fellowship of aa. Bob has helped millions of men and women give up alcoholism and drug addiction.
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. The second edition 1955 consisted of 1,150,000 copies. The big book the main 164 pages, prayers, personal stories, and. Sorting and rendering passages in the proprietary format of the 164 and more concordance does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either alcoholics. Many tried everythinghospitals, special treatments, sanitariums, asylums, and jails.
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