Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions - First Printing from Great Britain

Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions. This is a First Great Britain Printing that is undated. This printing was done in the 1960’s.

The first Great Britain printing of Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions was published by Alcoholics Anonymous Publishing, Inc. (Great Britain & Ireland) BM/Found • London, W.C. 1. This book was printed and bound in England by Hazell Watson and Viney LTD. Aylesbury, Bucks.

The later Great Britain Printings began to be published by Alcoholics Anonymous Sterling Area Services in the 1970’s.

About the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions from the Foreword:

“ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS is a world-wide fellowship of more than one hundred thousand alcoholic men and women who are banded together to solve their common problems and to help fellow sufferers in recovery from that age-old, baffling malady, alcoholism.

This book deals with the "Twelve Steps" and the "Twelve Traditions" of Alcoholics Anonymous. It presents an explicit view of the principles by which A.A. members recover and by which their society functions.

A.A.'s Twelve Steps are a group of principles, spiritual in their nature, which, if practised as a way of life, can expel the obsession to drink and enable the sufferer to become happily and usefully whole.

A.A.'s Twelve Traditions apply to the life of the fellowship itself. They outline the means by which A.A. maintains its unity and relates itself to the world about it, the way it lives and grows.

Though the essays which follow were written mainly for members, it is thought by many of A. A.'s friends that these pieces might arouse interest and find application outside A.A. itself.” … “A. A.'s Twelve Traditions took form and were first published in 1946 and later confirmed at A. A.'s first International Conference held at Cleveland in 1950. The tradition section of this volume portrays in some detail the experience which finally produced the Twelve Traditions and so gave A. A. its present form, substance, and unity.

As A.A. now enters maturity, it has begun to reach into forty foreign lands. In the view of its friends, this is but the beginning of its unique and valuable service.

It is hoped that this volume will afford all who read it a close-up view of the principles and forces which have made Alcoholics Anonymous what it is.”

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This book is in excellent condition. The cover shows some minor wear and fading to the spine. There is pencil writing about this book on the front end page. There is no other writing or markings in the book.

This book does not come with a dust jacket.

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