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Alcoholics Anonymous World Services. New York. 1979. 575 pages. Third Edition, sixth printing. This unique offering is a fine binding, leather bound copy with gilt titles and page edges; with marbled endpapers and silk page marker attached. Minor shelf-rub at tips; faint, small, minor scuff to front panel (barely.) Book is Near Fine. Binding and hinges are sound. AA Trustee's name stamped in gilt on front panel. This book was a gift by AA to a Trustee of their General Service Board of Alcoholics Anonymous. The recipient also served on the Executive Committee of the National Council on Alcoholism & Board of Directors. Interestingly, the recipient was also an associate of Dr. Jonas Salk and with him helped oversee the FIRST large-scale polio vaccination to combat the Polio epidemic plaguing the USA at the time. This book contains 19 inscriptions by associates and members of the AA Board & Executive Committee. One of the inscriptions is by Dr. Jack (John Norris) who was chairman of Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller's Advisory Council on Alcoholism from 1961 to 1971, and a trustee of Alcoholics Anonymous, and its Chairman from 1962 to 1979. A most unique offering. Seller Inventory # 001600
Title: Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book in Fine ...
Publisher: Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, New York
Publication Date: 1979
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Near Fine
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