Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book 1st Edition 4th Printing 1943 - Green Cover - ODJ

This is the 4th Printing of the 1st Edition Big Book from 1943! This features the Green cover. This book has an original dust jacket.

The Fourth Printing of the First Edition Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book was published in March 1943 with 5,000 copies released. The Fourth Printing was printed with two different color covers: Green and Navy Blue. On page 27, the first page of "There is a Solution", there was a change to the second line of text that previously read "hundreds men who were once" to "thousands of men and women who were once". Page 391 in this book is titled "Now We Are Eight Thousand"

This book is in very good dcondition. There are a couple small spots on the cover. The spine is firm and has no wear. The gold lettering on the spine looks great. There is a newspaper clipping left in the book with stains to the pages that it is at. There are no other markings and no writing inside this book. 

The dust jacket has experienced wear. There are several tears to the jacket that has been repaired by a previous owner with tape. This book also comes with a reproduction jacket placed underneath the original.

This is a very rare book to find in this good of condition. One of the first 3,500 copies of the fourth printing, bound in green cloth--after which a remaining 1,500 copies were bound up in blue. This one is in great condition for being almost 80 years old!

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