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.
Enjoy Shopping in this collection of AA Grapevine Magazine's.
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AA Grapevine - 25th Anniversary - June 1969
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AA Grapevine - Cracking the ‘Secret’ of Big City AA - May 1969
Original price $55 - Original price $55Original price$55$55 - $55Current price $55This is the May 1969 issue of the AA Grapevine. This issue has the headline article “Cracking the ‘Secret’ of Big City AA” This Grapevine is in ver...
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AA Grapevine - April 1969
Original price $55 - Original price $55Original price$55$55 - $55Current price $55This is the April 1969 issue of the AA Grapevine. This issue features the articles “Be Still and Know”, “The Bleeding Deacon”, “The Name Droppers”,...
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AA Grapevine - Anxiety/Tension - March 1969
Original price $55 - Original price $55Original price$55$55 - $55Current price $55This is the March 1969 issue of the AA Grapevine. This issue features the headline articles “That Almighty First Year”, “Anxiety/Tension - All Bad?...
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AA Grapevine - Young Winners - February 1969
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AA Grapevine - Convention Speakers - January 1969
Original price $55 - Original price $55Original price$55$55 - $55Current price $55This is the January 1969 issue of the AA Grapevine. This issue features a section on “Convention Speakers” including the headline articles “A Rugge...
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AA Grapevine - Doctors, Alcohol, and AA - October 1968
Original price $85 - Original price $85Original price$85$85 - $85Current price $85This is the October 1968 issue of the AA Grapevine. This is a Special Issue on “Doctors, Alcohol, and AA”. This Grapevine is in very good condition...
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AA Grapevine - Leadership in AA by Bill - September 1968
Original price $75 - Original price $75Original price$75$75 - $75Current price $75This is the September 1968 issue of the AA Grapevine. This issue features the headline articles “Leadership in AA” by Bill, “Darling Little Pills”,...
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AA Grapevine - Past/Present/Future - July 1968
Original price $55 - Original price $55Original price$55$55 - $55Current price $55This is the July 1968 issue of the AA Grapevine. This issue features the headline articles “All This Reading at AA Meetings”, “Past/Present/Future”...
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AA Grapevine - April 1968
Original price $55 - Original price $55Original price$55$55 - $55Current price $55This is the April 1968 issue of the AA Grapevine. This issue features the articles “Hail, Perseverance Group of Tobago Island!”, “Mr. Hyde Doesn’t ...
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AA Grapevine - Challenge in Jamaica - February 1968
Original price $55 - Original price $55Original price$55$55 - $55Current price $55This is the February 1968 issue of the AA Grapevine. This issue features the headline articles “For Days Sober... Again”, “A Funny Thing Happened t...
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AA Grapevine - The Challenge To AA - November 1967
Original price $55 - Original price $55Original price$55$55 - $55Current price $55This is the November 1967 issue of the AA Grapevine. This issue includes the headline articles; “Big Book Series: At Last No Longer Apart”, “The Ch...
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AA Grapevine - Self-Supporting by Bill - October 1967
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AA Grapevine - Stop Smoking - September 1967
Original price $55 - Original price $55Original price$55$55 - $55Current price $55This is the September 1967 issue of the AA Grapevine. This issue includes the headline articles; “Come On! Be Happy, Too”, “Stop Smoking?”, “Absolu...
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AA Grapevine - Loners - June 1967
Original price $55 - Original price $55Original price$55$55 - $55Current price $55This is the June 1967 issue of the AA Grapevine. This issue includes the two “Loners” articles; “Message by Morse” and “Sobriety-by-Mail.” Also inc...
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AA Grapevine - The Old 24th Street Clubhouse - October 1966
Original price $55 - Original price $55Original price$55$55 - $55Current price $55AA Grapevine issue from October 1966 features the headline articles “The Old 24th Street Clubhouse”, “What About Younger People in AA?”, “Ask An AA...
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AA Grapevine - Bill W on Why We Are Anonymous - May 1966
Original price $55 - Original price $55Original price$55$55 - $55Current price $55AA Grapevine issue from May 1966 features the headline articles “Seven Choices of Mature Living”, “Bill W. On Why We are Anonymous”, “I Was a Perpe...
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AA Grapevine - Out Of Insanity - February 1966
Original price $55 - Original price $55Original price$55$55 - $55Current price $55AA Grapevine issue from February 1966 features the headline articles “Out of Insanity - Up to Love”, “What Does Powerless Mean?”, “The Return of Ki...
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AA Grapevine - Trustees Program - January 1966
Original price $75 - Original price $75Original price$75$75 - $75Current price $75AA Grapevine issue from January 1966 features a section about the proposed expansion of the number of AA General Service Trustees to 21 that was wr...
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AA Grapevine - Faith Regained - September 1964
Original price $55 - Original price $55Original price$55$55 - $55Current price $55This is the September 1964 issue of the AA Grapevine. This issue features the headline articles “Faith Regained”, “Do I Rationalize?”, “The Girl Wh...
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AA Grapevine - Take Step Eleven by Bill - August 1964
Original price $75 - Original price $75Original price$75$75 - $75Current price $75This is the August 1964 issue of the AA Grapevine. This issue features the headline articles “Take Step Eleven” by Bill, “What Do We Do About The W...
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AA Grapevine - Anything Wrong With AA - March 1964
Original price $65 - Original price $65Original price$65$65 - $65Current price $65This is the March 1964 issue of the AA Grapevine. This issue features the headline articles “Anything Wrong With AA?”, “What We Need”, “Sermon in a...
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AA Grapevine - Fear - September 1963
Original price $55 - Original price $55Original price$55$55 - $55Current price $55This is the September 1963 issue of the AA Grapevine. This issue features the headline articles “Fear”, “How Many Meetings?”, “AA Spoken Here”, and...
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AA Grapevine - AA Attitudes - August 1963
Original price $55 - Original price $55Original price$55$55 - $55Current price $55This is the August 1963 issue of the AA Grapevine. This issue features the headline articles “That Terrible Word Must”, “AA Attitudes”, “Nervous?”,...
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