From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... printing gave
many readers the impression that ...
BB p.567(569),
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience
Yet it is true that our first printing gave many readers the impression
that these personality changes, or religious experiences, must be in
the nature of sudden and
spectacular upheavals.
2.
... printing of
the first edition in 1939.
BB xiii,
Foreword to First Edition
3.
... printing of
this book and the presentation ...
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.
4.
... printing voiced
the hope "that every alcoholic ...
BB xv,
Foreword to Second Edition
Our earliest printing voiced the hope "that every alcoholic who journeys will find the Fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous
at his destination.
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