Washingtonians, Emmanuel Movement and Pre-AA Books
This collection features all books that were influential to alcoholics before the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous. The majority of these are original books from the Washingtonians and Emmanuel Movement are from the mid 1800s to early 1900s. Other books that you will find here are related to prohibition, spirituality, solutions to alcoholism, and stories about alcoholics. Several of these books were influential to Bill Wilson in his writing of the Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book.
Enjoy shopping for amazing pieces of history related to the recovery of alcoholics in this collection of Washingtonians, Emmanuel Movement and pre-AA books.
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Varieties of Religious Experience by William James - 35th Printing from 1925
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The How and Why of the Emmanuel Movement by Thomas Parker Boyd - 1914
Original price $250 - Original price $250Original price$250$250 - $250Current price $250The How and Why of the Emmanuel Movement: A HAND-BOOK ON PSYCHO-THERAPEUTICS By REV. THOMAS PARKER BOYD. This printing is from 1914 with an origina...
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The How and Why of the Emmanuel Movement by Thomas Parker Boyd - 1921
Original price $225 - Original price $225Original price$225$225 - $225Current price $225The How and Why of the Emmanuel Movement: A HAND-BOOK ON PSYCHO-THERAPEUTICS By REV. THOMAS PARKER BOYD. This printing is from 1921 with an origina...
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Varieties of Religious Experience by William James - 7th Printing 1903
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The Emmanuel Movement in a New England Town by Lyman P. Powell from 1909
Original price $250 - Original price $250Original price$250$250 - $250Current price $250The Emmanuel Movement in a New England Town A Systematic Account of Experiments and Reflections Designed to Determine the Proper Relationship betwe...
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Religion and Life by Elwood Worcester from 1914
Original price $125 - Original price $125Original price$125$125 - $125Current price $125Religion and Life Elwood Worcester Harper & Brothers, Publishers February 1914 Elwood Worcester was the originator of the Emmanuel movement phi...
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Jerry McAuley An Apostle To The Lost
Original price $125 - Original price $125Original price$125$125 - $125Current price $125This book is titled Jerry McAuley An Apostle to the Lost from 1907. This version of the book was first published in 1907. The book was originally p...
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Habits That Handicap by Charles Towns - First Printing from 1915
Original price $250 - Original price $250Original price$250$250 - $250Current price $250Habits That Handicap by Charles Towns 1915 Habits That Handicap by Charles B. Towns. Copyright page indicates that this book is a First Printing an...
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The Principles of Jesus (The Four Absolutes) by Robert E. Speer - 1902
Original price $150 - Original price $150Original price$150$150 - $150Current price $150The Principles of Jesus by Robert E. Speer. Unstated Edition with a copyright date 1902. This book was published by Fleming H. Revell Company. In t...
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The Common Sense of Drinking by Richard R. Peabody from 1931
Original price $995 - Original price $995Original price$995$995 - $995Current price $995The Common Sense of Drinking by Richard R Peabody - December 1931. BOSTON, MASS: Little, Brown & Co., 1931 This is the Second Printing from Dec...
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The Common Sense of Drinking by Richard R. Peabody - 1933 - RDJ
Original price $595 - Original price $595Original price$595$595 - $595Current price $595The Common Sense of Drinking by Richard R Peabody - January 1933. BOSTON, MASS: Little, Brown & Co., 1933 This is the Third Printing from Janua...
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Habits That Handicap by Charles Towns - First Printing - 1915
Original price $295 - Original price $295Original price$295$295 - $295Current price $295Habits That Handicap by Charles Towns 1915 Habits That Handicap by Charles B. Towns. Copyright page indicates that this book is a First Printing an...
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John Barleycorn by Jack London - First Printing from 1913 with ODJ
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Report of the Executive Committee of the American Temperance Union - 1844
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Report of the Executive Committee of the American Temperance Union - 1845
Original price $150 - Original price $150Original price$150$150 - $150Current price $150Report of the Executive Committee of the American Temperance Union - 1845 PLEDGE OF THE UNION. WE, THE UNDERSIGNED, DO AGREE, THAT WE WILL NOT USE ...
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The Emmanuel Movement in a New England Town by Lyman P. Powell
Original price $150 - Original price $150Original price$150$150 - $150Current price $150The Emmanuel Movement in a New England Town A Systematic Account of Experiments and Reflections Designed to Determine the Proper Relationship betwe...
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The Power of Self-Suggestion by Samuel McComb - 1909
Original price $125 - Original price $125Original price$125$125 - $125Current price $125The Power of Self-suggestionby Samuel McComb, D.D. Associate Director of the EMMANUEL MOVEMENT August 1909 This rare 54 page Emmanuel Movement book...
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The Mental Highway by Thomas Parker Boyd - 1922
Original price $195 - Original price $195Original price$195$195 - $195Current price $195The Mental Highway LESSONS IN ACADEMIC AND APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY Thomas Parker Boyd Author "How and Why of the Emmanuel Movement" "The Voice Eternal" ...
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Addresses by Drs. Worcester and McDougall - 1926
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Asylum by William Seabrook from 1935
Original price $275Original price $275 - Original price $275Original price $275Current price $195$195 - $195Current price $195Asylum by William Seabrook. This book has a copyright date from 1935 and comes with the original dust jacket. The amazingly candid story of William...
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Temperance or Prohibition? - 1929
Original price $225Original price $225 - Original price $225Original price $225Current price $150$150 - $150Current price $150Temperance or Prohibition? This is a first edition from 1929 with the original dust jacket. About this book: “A BOOK of evidence indicating the Am...
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Signed - The Religion of a Layman by Charles Brown
Original price $195 - Original price $195Original price$195$195 - $195Current price $195The Religion of a Layman by Charles Brown. This book has been signed by the author on the first page. From the Preface: “This is not a commentary —...
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Varieties of Religious Experience by William James - from 1929 with the original dust jacket
Original price $250 - Original price $250Original price$250$250 - $250Current price $250This is the Thirty-Seventh Impression of The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James from October 1929. This bo...
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Meditations on the Cross by Toyohiko Kagawa
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