AA Grapevine
This collection includes the AA Grapevine Magazines. These are great gifts to give to Sponsors, Sponsees, and friends in celebration of a sobriety anniversary!
The Grapevine was created by six AA members in the New York area — four women and two men. With the blessings of AA's co-founder Bill W., they published the first issue in June 1944, just nine years after the founding of AA. A copy of that first issue was sent to every AA group — about 300 at the time — and to all known AA members in the armed services overseas. An entire page with the heading, "Mail Call for All AAs in the Armed Forces," was devoted to letters from these members, who began calling the Grapevine their "meeting in print." The title stuck, and today the Grapevine and La Viña carry it on their covers.
At the heart of the early Grapevines, then as now, were first-person stories. There were also news and notes on current happenings at the Central Office, plus reports of the explosion of new groups in North America and around the world. In addition to AA news, there were book reviews and magazine reprints and pieces written by non-AAs, including some well-known literary figures. Discussed were such burning topics of the day as the place of women in AA, returning veterans, and cross-addiction.
By the fourth issue, the magazine began printing this description of itself under the masthead:
A monthly Journal devoted to those seeking further knowledge on the problem of alcoholism, in the hope that it may prove a unifying bond to all alcoholics everywhere. Individual opinions expressed here are not, necessarily, those of AA as a whole.
The AA Grapevine was in fact appealing to "alcoholics everywhere" and in 1945, at the request of the groups, it became the national journal of Alcoholics Anonymous. Four years later, when the Grapevine's readership had expanded to include members in Canada and Europe, the designation was changed to the international journal of Alcoholics Anonymous.
Later issues of the Grapevine reported on important developments in the growth of the Fellowship, worldwide, such as the birth of the General Service Structure, World Service Meetings, and the publication of the Third and Fourth editions of the Big Book. The history of the Grapevine is the history of the growth of Alcoholics Anonymous. In 1986, the General Service Conference reaffirmed the magazine's place in AA with an advisory action that recognized it as the international journal of Alcoholics Anonymous.
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AA Grapevine - Serenity Prayer - March 1955
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AA Grapevine from April 1955
Original price $125 - Original price $125Original price$125$125 - $125Current price $125This is the April 1955, issue of the AA Grapevine. This issue features the articles ”Please Send Miracle At Once”, “The Significance of St. Louis b...
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AA Grapevine December 1958 - Christmas Editorial by Bill
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AA Grapevine - Traditions Month - November 1957
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AA Grapevine - AA Comes of Age - October 1957
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AA Grapevine - September 1957
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AA Grapevine - February 1957
Original price $85 - Original price $85Original price$85$85 - $85Current price $85This is the February 1957, issue of the AA Grapevine. This issue features the articles ”As You Live It”, “The Three T’s of Gratitude”, “Whose Pigeo...
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AA Grapevine - April 1957
Original price $85 - Original price $85Original price$85$85 - $85Current price $85This is the April 1957, issue of the AA Grapevine. This issue features the articles ”Came to Believe”, “To Whom it May Concern”, “Twelve Suggested ...
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AA Grapevine - May 1957
Original price $85 - Original price $85Original price$85$85 - $85Current price $85This is the May 1957, issue of the AA Grapevine. This issue features the articles ”The Yes and the No of It”, “Taper-To Reduce Gradually”, “A Fragm...
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AA Grapevine June 1957
Original price $85 - Original price $85Original price$85$85 - $85Current price $85This is the June 1957, issue of the AA Grapevine. This issue features the articles ”What Do They Mean - Personality Change?”, “I Found Freedom in P...
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AA Grapevine - AA Comes of Age - October 1957
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AA Grapevine from January 1955
Original price $115 - Original price $115Original price$115$115 - $115Current price $115This is the January 1955, issue of the AA Grapevine. This issue features the article ”Why Alcoholics Anonymous is Anonymous” by Bill. This Grapevin...
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Historic 1948 "Grapevine" Signed by Alcoholics Anonymous Co-Founders Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob
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