Alcoholics Anonymous Third Edition First Printing from 1976 with ODJ

Alcoholics Anonymous Third Edition First Printing Big Book with ODJ This Big Book is a Third Edition First Printing from 1976 with its original dust jacket. Information about the Third Edition of the Big Book: “Originally published in 1939, when A.A. membership numbered only about one hundred, the first edition of his book went through more than 300,000 copies. The second edition, appearing in 1955, when membership had reached past 150,000, eventually brought the total distribution to over 1,450,000 copies. By the time this third edition went to the printer, in March 1976, A.A. membership worldwide was estimated conservatively at 1,000,000. The number of personal stories has been increased to forty-four in this edition, in order to represent more accurately the wide variety of individuals now finding recovery from alcoholism in A.A. But the basic text (pages 1 through 164) remains unchanged. This is the A.A. message, just as it was introduced in the 1939 "Alcoholics Anonymous," the boo