Alchohlics Anonymous - The Story of How More Than Six Thousand Men and Women Have Recovered From Alchoholism. Third Printing, June, 1942, of the First Edition.

Alcoholics Anonymous - The Story of How More Than Six Thousand Men and Women Have Recovered From Alcoholism. Works Publishing Inc. 1942 (Third Printing, June, 1942) of the First Edition. Hard cover with no dust jacket. Slightly larger than the hardcover 'Big Book' one sees today. Dimensions are: 9 1/4" tall, 6" deep, 2" thick. The cover on this book is a much lighter blue, than the dark blue of the current editions of this book. The gilt lettering on the spine of the cover is almost completely faded. There is where to the extremities of the cover, heavy on the bottom tips, and some soiling and scuffing to the cover, along with some non-literate pencil scribblings on the back cover. The edge of the page block is foxed and soiled, probably dust soiling, with a 1/2" x 1/16" (some sort of oil?) stain on top which does not go deep to the page surface. There was a looseness to the binding in front between the flyleaf and the half-title page, which I have attempted to repair with an archival