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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   Display entire 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   Display entire 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   Display entire 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   Display entire Preface
Nine of the stories in Part II ("They Stopped in Time") were carried over from the second edition; eight new stories were added.


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... edition in 1939.   BB xiii, Foreword to First Edition   Display entire Foreword to First Edition
This is the Foreword as it appeared in the first printing of the first edition in 1939.


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... edition includes the Twelve Concepts for World ...   BB xii, Preface   Display entire Preface
This fourth edition includes the Twelve Concepts for World Service and revises the three sections of personal stories as follows.


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... edition of "Alcoholics Anonymous" came off press ...   BB xxiii, Foreword to Fourth Edition   Display entire Foreword to Fourth Edition
This fourth edition of "Alcoholics Anonymous" came off press in November 2001, at the start of a new millennium.


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... edition of the book "Alcoholics Anonymous."   BB xi, Preface   Display entire Preface
This is the fourth edition of the book "Alcoholics Anonymous."

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... 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.


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... edition, Part I ("Pioneers of A.A.") was ...   BB xii, Preface   Display entire Preface
In the third edition, Part I ("Pioneers of A.A.") was left unchanged.


11.
... edition, published in 1955, reached a total ...   BB xi, Preface   Display entire Preface
The second edition, published in 1955, reached a total of more than 1,150,500 copies.


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... edition represent a membership whose characteristics -- of ...   BB xxiii, Foreword to Fourth Edition   Display entire 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.


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... edition was published in 1976, worldwide membership ...   BB xxiii, Foreword to Fourth Edition   Display entire 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.


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... edition went to the printer, the total ...   BB xxii, Foreword to Third Edition   Display entire 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.


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... edition were retained intact; three were edited ...   BB xi, Preface   Display entire 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.


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... edition, which came off press in 1976, ...   BB xi, Preface   Display entire Preface
The third edition, which came off press in 1976, achieved a circulation of approximately 19,550,000 in all formats.


Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.  The A.A. Preamble, copyright © The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission.  Permission to reprint does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous or The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.

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