Here’s How - Pamphlet

Title: Here’s How – Pamphlet

Publisher: Unknown

Publication Date: Undated (likely 1940s-50s)

Pages: 16 (approx.)

Condition: Very Good – covers are clean with minimal wear; interior pages show light age toning but remain crisp and unmarked. Staples secure. Please view all photos for exact condition details.

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Featured Content: Here’s How

This vintage Alcoholics Anonymous pamphlet, Here’s How, presents a clear and practical introduction to A.A.’s principles and program of recovery.

The pamphlet includes:

• A self-assessment test adapted from Johns Hopkins University Hospital to help readers identify signs of alcoholism.
• “The Drinking Alcoholic’s Stairway of No Return” – a chart illustrating the decline of untreated alcoholism.
• A simple explanation of A.A.’s First Step and the other eleven Steps that follow.
• Practical mottos such as “First Things First,” “Easy Does It,” and “Live and Let Live.”
• A statement of inclusivity welcoming members of all faiths, as well as agnostics and skeptics.
• The full Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous, encouraging newcomers toward recovery.

This straightforward and compelling pamphlet was widely distributed in early A.A. circles to help alcoholics identify their problem and find a way out through the Fellowship.

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Collector’s Significance

• Early A.A. Outreach: A historical piece of A.A. literature designed to reach alcoholics still struggling.
• Cultural Artifact: Provides an authentic example of mid-20th-century recovery messaging and design.
• Condition: Well-preserved copy, increasingly scarce in this state.

This pamphlet stands as a valuable artifact for collectors of A.A. history and recovery ephemera, reflecting how the message of hope and sobriety was carried in A.A.’s formative years.