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 from November 1955
Original price $90 - Original price $90Original price$90$90 - $90Current price $90This is the November 1955, issue of the AA Grapevine. This issue features the articles ”Thanksgiving Time” by Bill W, “The Day Willie Slipped”, “In...
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AA Grapevine - April 1954
Original price $115 - Original price $115Original price$115$115 - $115Current price $115This is the April 1954, issue of the AA Grapevine. This issue features the articles ”Education for Privacy”, “High Bottom Alcoholics”, “Minutes if ...
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AA Grapevine - Conversion As A Psychological Phenomenon - March 1954
Original price $115 - Original price $115Original price$115$115 - $115Current price $115This is the March 1954, issue of the AA Grapevine. This issue features the articles ”Conversion as a Psychological Phenomenon” by Harry Tiebout, “T...
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AA Grapevine from December 1954
Original price $125 - Original price $125Original price$125$125 - $125Current price $125This is the December 1954, issue of the AA Grapevine. This issue features the articles “A Christmas Message from Lois and Bill”, “Home For Christma...
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AA Grapevine from November 1954
Original price $115 - Original price $115Original price$115$115 - $115Current price $115This is the November 1954, issue of the AA Grapevine. This issue features the articles “A Thanksgiving Message from Bill”, “There is No Past Tense ...
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AA Grapevine - October 1954
Original price $115 - Original price $115Original price$115$115 - $115Current price $115This is the October 1954, issue of the AA Grapevine. This issue features the articles ”The First Chance”, “Magna Charta for Alcoholics”, “Doing ver...
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AA Grapevine from December 1949
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AA Grapevine - General Service Conference - June 1952
Original price $105 - Original price $105Original price$105$105 - $105Current price $105This is the June 1952, issue of the AA Grapevine. This issue features the articles “AA General Service Conference”, “A Remembering Heart”, “AA on t...
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AA Grapevine from May 1953
Original price $130 - Original price $130Original price$130$130 - $130Current price $130This is the May 1953, issue of the AA Grapevine. This issue features the articles ”Group Problems and Growing Pains”, “Twelfth Step Work IS AA”, an...
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AA Grapevine - Tradition One by Bill - April 1952
Original price $145 - Original price $145Original price$145$145 - $145Current price $145This is the April 1952, issue of the AA Grapevine. This issue features the first of a series of articles by Bill explaining the Twelve Traditions. ...
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AA Grapevine - October 1951
Original price $165 - Original price $165Original price$165$165 - $165Current price $165This is the October 1951, issue of the AA Grapevine. This issue features the articles “There Ain’t No Pushbutton”, “Twelfth Step”, and much more. T...
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AA Grapevine - We Come of Age by Bill - September 1950
Original price $180 - Original price $180Original price$180$180 - $180Current price $180This is the September 1950 issue of the AA Grapevine. This issue features the article “We Come of Age by Bill” which was a recap of the First AA In...
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AA Grapevine - March 1957
Original price $85 - Original price $85Original price$85$85 - $85Current price $85This is the March 1957, issue of the AA Grapevine. This issue features the articles ”Inventory Is Today”, “Letter to Dr. B.”, “No More Jails”, and ...
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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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March 1956 AA Grapevine
Original price $65 - Original price $65Original price$65$65 - $65Current price $65This is the March 1956, issue of the AA Grapevine. This issue features the articles ”Killed Any Dragons Lately?”, “Friends Everywhere”, “Drinking i...
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AA Grapevine from February 1970 - Around the World in One-Day-at-a-Time
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AA Grapevine from January 1970 - Spiritual Experience
Original price $105 - Original price $105Original price$105$105 - $105Current price $105This is the January 1970 issue of the AA Grapevine. This issue features a section on “The Search For Spiritual Experience” including the piece writ...
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AA Grapevine from September 1969 - A Nun’s Story
Original price $55 - Original price $55Original price$55$55 - $55Current price $55This is the September 1969 issue of the AA Grapevine. This issue has the headline articles “The Hans of AA Was There”, “A Nun’s Story”, and much mo...
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AA Grapevine from August 1969
Original price $55 - Original price $55Original price$55$55 - $55Current price $55This is the August 1969 issue of the AA Grapevine. This issue has the headline articles “Explaining the Unexplainable”, “The Truth in the Myth”, an...
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AA Grapevine from May 1969 - Cracking the ‘Secret’ of Big City AA
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AA Grapevine from April 1969
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AA Grapevine from March 1969 - Anxiety/Tension
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AA Grapevine from January 1969 - Convention Speakers
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 from December 1968 - The Christmas Present
Original price $75 - Original price $75Original price$75$75 - $75Current price $75This is the December 1968 issue of the AA Grapevine. This issue features a “Christmas Message” from Bill. Also included are the headline articles “...
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