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From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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to view that page in the literature.1.
Sixteen years have elapsed between our first printing of this book and the presentation
in 1955 of our second edition.
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The second printing of the
first edition added the appendix "Spiritual Experience";
in the second edition, the appendices on A.A. Tradition, the "medical view" and "religious view" of A.A., the Lasker Award and information on how to contact A.A. were added, and the appendix on the
Alcoholic Foundation
was discontinued.
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The first edition appeared in April 1939, and in the following sixteen years, more than 300,000 copies went into circulation.
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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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This fourth edition includes the Twelve Concepts for World Service and revises the three sections of personal stories as follows.
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This fourth edition of "Alcoholics Anonymous" came off press in November 2001, at the start of a new millennium.
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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 represent
a membership whose characteristics -- of ...
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Foreword to Fourth Edition, p.xxiii
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.
The second printing of the
first edition added the appendix "Spiritual Experience";
in the second edition, the appendices on A.A. Tradition, the "medical view" and "religious view" of A.A., the Lasker Award and information on how to contact A.A. were added, and the appendix on the
Alcoholic Foundation
was discontinued.
14.
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.
15.
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.
16.
"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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The third edition, which came off press in 1976, achieved a circulation of approximately 19,550,000 in all formats.
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Alcoholics Anonymous, the
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions,
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