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Title: Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How More Than Six Thousand Men and Women Have Recovered from Alcoholism
Author: [Wilson, William (Bill W.)] Description: viii, [2], 400 pp. 9x6, original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, original jacket. First Edition, Third printing.Presentation copy inscribed on the front free endpaper, "To my friend Dr. Jesse M. Bader, Yours in Christ, Bill Wilson, 1/13/43." Jesse Moren Bader (1886-1963)was a noted evangelist, ecumenist and global leader. He founded the global, ecumenical, World Communion Sunday which was launched on October 6, 1940 and continues on the first Sunday in October each year. There were 5000 copies of this third printing published in June, 1942. Heading: (Alcoholics Anonymous)Place Published: New York Publisher: Works Publishing Co. Date Published: 1942 Condition reportJacket chipped and worn, lacking top 2½" of spine strip and some of adjacent front panel, repairs on verso; volume spine head bumped, shelf wear, darkening along front endpaper gutter, else very good in good jacket.
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