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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.

  • AA Grapevine - Doctors, Alcohol, and AA - October 1968 Recovery Collectibles
    AA Grapevine - Doctors, Alcohol, and AA - October 1968 Recovery Collectibles

    AA Grapevine - Doctors, Alcohol, and AA - October 1968

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    This 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 - Convention Speakers - January 1969 Recovery Collectibles
    AA Grapevine - Convention Speakers - January 1969 Recovery Collectibles

    AA Grapevine - Convention Speakers - January 1969

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    This 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 - Young Winners - February 1969 Recovery Collectibles
    AA Grapevine - Young Winners - February 1969 Recovery Collectibles

    AA Grapevine - Young Winners - February 1969

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    This is the February 1969 issue of the AA Grapevine. This issue features a section on “Young Winners” including the headline articles “We Were All ...

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  • AA Grapevine - Anxiety/Tension - March 1969 Recovery Collectibles
    AA Grapevine - Anxiety/Tension - March 1969 Recovery Collectibles

    AA Grapevine - Anxiety/Tension - March 1969

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    This 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 - April 1969 Recovery Collectibles
    AA Grapevine - April 1969 Recovery Collectibles

    AA Grapevine - April 1969

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    This 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 - Cracking the ‘Secret’ of Big City AA - May 1969 Recovery Collectibles
    AA Grapevine - Cracking the ‘Secret’ of Big City AA - May 1969 Recovery Collectibles

    AA Grapevine - Cracking the ‘Secret’ of Big City AA - May 1969

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    This 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 - 25th Anniversary - June 1969 Recovery Collectibles
    AA Grapevine - 25th Anniversary - June 1969 Recovery Collectibles

    AA Grapevine - 25th Anniversary - June 1969

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    This is the June 1969, Twenty-Fifth Anniversary  issue of the AA Grapevine. This issue has headline articles written by or about Bill W, Sister Ign...

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  • AA Grapevine - Young People and AA - July 1969 Recovery Collectibles
    AA Grapevine - Young People and AA - July 1969 Recovery Collectibles

    AA Grapevine - Young People and AA - July 1969

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    This is the July 1969 issue of the AA Grapevine. This issue has the headline articles “Those Stupid Slogans!”, “Young People and AA”, and much more...

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  • AA Grapevine - August 1969 Recovery Collectibles
    AA Grapevine - August 1969 Recovery Collectibles

    AA Grapevine - August 1969

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    This 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 - March 1951 Recovery Collectibles
    AA Grapevine - March 1951 Recovery Collectibles
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    AA Grapevine - March 1951

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    This is the March 1951, issue of the AA Grapevine. This issue features a special Editorial note to the AA members in Cork, Ireland in celebration o...

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  • AA Grapevine - Easy Does It - July 1951 Recovery Collectibles
    AA Grapevine - Easy Does It - July 1951 Recovery Collectibles

    AA Grapevine - Easy Does It - July 1951

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    This is the July 1951, issue of the AA Grapevine. This issue features the articles “God is not Yourself” by Paul de Kruif, “AA - 50% Alcoholic - 50...

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  • AA Grapevine - March 1952 Recovery Collectibles
    AA Grapevine - March 1952 Recovery Collectibles

    AA Grapevine - March 1952

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    This is the March 1952, issue of the AA Grapevine. This issue features the articles “March is a Time For New Brooms”, “The Doctors Look at Alcohol”...

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  • AA Grapevine - General Service Conference - June 1952 Recovery Collectibles
    AA Grapevine - General Service Conference - June 1952 Recovery Collectibles
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    AA Grapevine - General Service Conference - June 1952

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    This 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 - AA Prison Groups - July 1952 Recovery Collectibles
    AA Grapevine - AA Prison Groups - July 1952 Recovery Collectibles

    AA Grapevine - AA Prison Groups - July 1952

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    This is the July 1952, issue of the AA Grapevine. This issue features the third in a series of articles by Bill explaining the Twelve Traditions. T...

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  • AA Grapevine - October 1953 Recovery Collectibles
    AA Grapevine - October 1953 Recovery Collectibles

    AA Grapevine - October 1953

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    This is the October 1953, issue of the AA Grapevine. This issue features the articles ”Alice in the Wonderland of AA”, “A Look at Ourselves”, “Too ...

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  • AA Grapevine - God and AA - November 1953 Recovery Collectibles
    AA Grapevine - God and AA - November 1953 Recovery Collectibles

    AA Grapevine - God and AA - November 1953

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    This is the November 1953, issue of the AA Grapevine. This issue features the articles ”God and AA”, “Alcoholics are People!”, “Homeless but Happy”...

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  • AA Grapevine - Hospitals and Prisons - August 1954 Recovery Collectibles
    AA Grapevine - Hospitals and Prisons - August 1954 Recovery Collectibles

    AA Grapevine - Hospitals and Prisons - August 1954

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    This is the August 1954, issue of the AA Grapevine. This issue features the articles ”The Twelve Steps and the Older Member”, “Case History of a Dr...

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  • AA Grapevine - October 1954 Recovery Collectibles
    AA Grapevine - October 1954 Recovery Collectibles

    AA Grapevine - October 1954

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    This 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 - The Pink Cloud and Afternoon by Harry Tiebout - September 1955 Recovery Collectibles
    AA Grapevine - The Pink Cloud and Afternoon by Harry Tiebout - September 1955 Recovery Collectibles
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    AA Grapevine - The Pink Cloud and Afternoon by Harry Tiebout - September 1955

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    This is the September 1955, issue of the AA Grapevine. This issue features the articles ”The Pink Cloud and After” by Dr. Harry Tiebout, “You Don’t...

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  • AA Grapevine - January 1956 Recovery Collectibles
    AA Grapevine - January 1956 Recovery Collectibles

    AA Grapevine - January 1956

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    This is the January 1956, issue of the AA Grapevine. This issue features the articles ”New Year’s and the Perennial Beginner”, “Crisis in Belgium”,...

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  • AA Grapevine - July 1956 Recovery Collectibles
    AA Grapevine - July 1956 Recovery Collectibles

    AA Grapevine - July 1956

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    This is the July 1956, issue of the AA Grapevine. This issue features the articles ”When I First Joined AA”, “In all Our Affairs”, “What’s Your Exc...

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  • AA Grapevine - Tranquilizers - October 1956 Recovery Collectibles
    AA Grapevine - Tranquilizers - October 1956 Recovery Collectibles

    AA Grapevine - Tranquilizers - October 1956

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    This is the October 1956, issue of the AA Grapevine. This issue features the articles ”Stop-Look-Listen”, “Tranquilizers”, “The Worst Disappointmen...

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  • AA Grapevine - Traditions Month - November 1956 Recovery Collectibles
    AA Grapevine - Traditions Month - November 1956 Recovery Collectibles

    AA Grapevine - Traditions Month - November 1956

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    This is the November 1956, Traditions Month issue of the AA Grapevine. This issue features the articles ”The Whisper of Humility”, “Where Paychiatr...

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  • AA Grapevine - September 1958 Recovery Collectibles
    AA Grapevine - September 1958 Recovery Collectibles

    AA Grapevine - September 1958

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    This is the September 1958, issue of the AA Grapevine. This issue features the articles ”Words Can’t Say Everything”, “The Unshakeable Knowledge”, ...

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