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<p>[QUOTE="scoutshouse, post: 413030, member: 267"]Yes, it's true, these books are well loved and I really can't think of any other book that involved a community willing to share so much of their own personal history, no matter how dark. </p><p><br /></p><p>In the back of the first edition are 29 stories from members who trusted their stories would be kept anonymous and hoped might help someone else.</p><p><br /></p><p>The formula was (and remains) to tell "how it was, what it was like and what it's like now." No lectures. </p><p><br /></p><p>This <a href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/Alcoholics-Anonymous-1939-1st-Edition-1st-Printing-First-Edition-AA-Big-Book-/263976435366" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/Alcoholics-Anonymous-1939-1st-Edition-1st-Printing-First-Edition-AA-Big-Book-/263976435366" rel="nofollow">ebay ad</a> gives a lot of good information on editions and fun details like "The book can be authenticated as an original first printing by the double-printing of line 26 and line 27 on page 234 and the misspelling of aberations as "abberations" in line 29 of page 154."</p><p><br /></p><p>Thank you to all who were happy to share![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="scoutshouse, post: 413030, member: 267"]Yes, it's true, these books are well loved and I really can't think of any other book that involved a community willing to share so much of their own personal history, no matter how dark. In the back of the first edition are 29 stories from members who trusted their stories would be kept anonymous and hoped might help someone else. The formula was (and remains) to tell "how it was, what it was like and what it's like now." No lectures. This [URL='https://www.ebay.com/itm/Alcoholics-Anonymous-1939-1st-Edition-1st-Printing-First-Edition-AA-Big-Book-/263976435366']ebay ad[/URL] gives a lot of good information on editions and fun details like "The book can be authenticated as an original first printing by the double-printing of line 26 and line 27 on page 234 and the misspelling of aberations as "abberations" in line 29 of page 154." Thank you to all who were happy to share![/QUOTE]
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