From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... edition.
BB xv,
Foreword to Second Edition
Sixteen years have elapsed between our first printing of this book and the presentation
in 1955 of our second edition.
2.
... edition added
the appendices, the Twelve Traditions, ...
BB xi,
Preface
The second edition added the appendices, the
Twelve Traditions, and
the directions for getting in touch with A.A.
3.
... edition appeared
in April 1939, and in ...
BB xi,
Preface
The first edition appeared in April 1939, and in the following
sixteen years, more than 300,000 copies went into circulation.
4.
... edition; eight
new stories were added.
BB xii,
Preface
Nine of the stories in Part II ("They Stopped in Time") were carried over from the second edition; eight new stories were added.
5.
... edition in
1939.
BB xiii,
Foreword to First Edition
6.
... edition includes
the Twelve Concepts for World ...
BB xii,
Preface
This fourth edition includes the Twelve Concepts for World Service and revises the three sections of personal stories as follows.
7.
... edition of
"Alcoholics Anonymous" came off press ...
BB xxiii,
Foreword to Fourth Edition
This fourth edition of "Alcoholics Anonymous"
came off press in November 2001, at the start of a new millennium.
8.
... edition of
the book "Alcoholics Anonymous."
BB xi,
Preface
9.
... edition of
the book "Alcoholics Anonymous," published ...
12&12 p.22,
Step One
That is why the first edition of the book "Alcoholics Anonymous,"
published when our membership was small, dealt with low-bottom cases only.
10.
... edition, Part
I ("Pioneers of A.A.") was ...
BB xii,
Preface
11.
... edition, published
in 1955, reached a total ...
BB xi,
Preface
12.
... edition represent
a membership whose characteristics -- of ...
BB xxiii,
Foreword to Fourth Edition
The stories added to this
edition represent a membership whose characteristics -- of age, gender, race, and culture -- have widened and have deepened
to encompass virtually everyone the
first 100 members could have hoped to
reach.
13.
... edition was
published in 1976, worldwide membership ...
BB xxiii,
Foreword to Fourth Edition
Since the third edition was
published in 1976, worldwide membership
of A.A. has just about doubled, to an estimated
two million or more, with nearly 100,800 groups meeting in approximately 150 countries around the world.
14.
... edition went
to the printer, the total ...
BB xxii,
Foreword to Third Edition
By March 1976, when this
edition went to the printer, the total worldwide membership
of Alcoholics Anonymous was conservatively estimated at more than 1,000,000, with almost 28,000 groups meeting in over 90 countries.
15.
... edition were
retained intact; three were edited ...
BB xi,
Preface
"Bill's Story," "Doctor Bob's Nightmare," and one other personal history from the first edition were retained intact; three were edited and one of these was retitled; new versions of two stories were written, with
new titles; thirty completely new stories were added; and the story section was divided into three parts, under the same headings that are used now.
16.
... edition, which
came off press in 1976, ...
BB xi,
Preface
The third edition, which came off press in 1976, achieved a circulation of approximately 19,550,000 in all formats.
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