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Anonymous. MAP OF PARIS - GRAND HOTEL TERMINUS ST - LAZARE 1954. Grand Hotel, Paris, 1954.

Price: US$15.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 16 x 11 inches, folds to 4 x 5 1/2 inches. Promotional hand-out map of Paris with ads for alcoholic beveridges and Metro map and map to garage. Condition is Very Good, 5 monuments have been circled on Paris map otherwise very clean. RGR case

Seller: Andre Strong Bookseller, Blue Hill, ME, U.S.A.

Hazelden Publishing. Twenty-four Hours A Day (Hardcover). Hazelden Publishing & Educational Services, Center City, 1954.

Price: US$19.58 + shipping

Condition: New

Description: Hardcover. This best-selling meditation book for those in recovery offers daily thoughts, meditations, and prayers for living a clean and sober life. Since 1954, Twenty-Four Hours a Day has become a stable force in the recovery of many alcoholics throughout the world. With over nine million copies in print (the original text has been revised), this "little black book" offers daily thoughts, meditations, and prayers for living a clean and sober life. A spiritual resource with practical applications to fit our daily lives."For yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision" is part of the Sanskrit proverb quoted at the beginning of the book which has become one of the basic building blocks for a life of sobriety. In addition to a thought, meditation and prayer for each day of the year, this handy, pocket-sized volume also contains the Serenity Prayer and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous. It is a simple, yet effective way to help us relate the Twelve Steps to everyday life and helps us find the power not to take that first drink each day. Since 1954, "Twenty-Four Hours a Day" has become a stable force in the recovery of many alcoholics throughout the world. With over nine million copies in print (the original text has been revised), this "little black book" offers daily thoughts, meditations, and prayers for living a clean and sober life. A spiritual resource with practical applications to fit our daily lives. "For yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision" is part of the Sanskrit proverb quoted at the beginning of the book which has become one of the basic building blocks for a life of sobriety. In addition to a thought, meditation and prayer for each day of the year, this handy, pocket-sized volume also contains the Serenity Prayer and the 12 Steps and 12 Traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous. It is a simple, yet effective way to help us relate the Twelve Steps to everyday life and helps us find the power not to take that first drink each day. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.

Hazelden Publishing. Twenty-four Hours A Day (Hardcover). Hazelden Publishing & Educational Services, Center City, 1954.

Price: US$23.39 + shipping

Condition: New

Description: Hardcover. This best-selling meditation book for those in recovery offers daily thoughts, meditations, and prayers for living a clean and sober life. Since 1954, Twenty-Four Hours a Day has become a stable force in the recovery of many alcoholics throughout the world. With over nine million copies in print (the original text has been revised), this "little black book" offers daily thoughts, meditations, and prayers for living a clean and sober life. A spiritual resource with practical applications to fit our daily lives."For yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision" is part of the Sanskrit proverb quoted at the beginning of the book which has become one of the basic building blocks for a life of sobriety. In addition to a thought, meditation and prayer for each day of the year, this handy, pocket-sized volume also contains the Serenity Prayer and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous. It is a simple, yet effective way to help us relate the Twelve Steps to everyday life and helps us find the power not to take that first drink each day. Since 1954, "Twenty-Four Hours a Day" has become a stable force in the recovery of many alcoholics throughout the world. With over nine million copies in print (the original text has been revised), this "little black book" offers daily thoughts, meditations, and prayers for living a clean and sober life. A spiritual resource with practical applications to fit our daily lives. "For yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision" is part of the Sanskrit proverb quoted at the beginning of the book which has become one of the basic building blocks for a life of sobriety. In addition to a thought, meditation and prayer for each day of the year, this handy, pocket-sized volume also contains the Serenity Prayer and the 12 Steps and 12 Traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous. It is a simple, yet effective way to help us relate the Twelve Steps to everyday life and helps us find the power not to take that first drink each day. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Seller: CitiRetail, Stevenage, United Kingdom

Anonymous. Twenty-Four Hours a Day. HAZELDEN PUB Jan 1954, 1954.

Price: US$26.70 + shipping

Condition: New

Description: Neuware - Since 1954, 'Twenty-Four Hours a Day' has become a stable force in the recovery of many alcoholics throughout the world. With over nine million copies in print (the original text has been revised), this 'little black book' offers daily thoughts, meditations, and prayers for living a clean and sober life. A spiritual resource with practical applications to fit our daily lives. 'For yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision' is part of the Sanskrit proverb quoted at the beginning of the book which has become one of the basic building blocks for a life of sobriety. In addition to a thought, meditation and prayer for each day of the year, this handy, pocket-sized volume also contains the Serenity Prayer and the 12 Steps and 12 Traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous. It is a simple, yet effective way to help us relate the Twelve Steps to everyday life and helps us find the power not to take that first drink each day.

Seller: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germany

Hazelden Publishing. Twenty-four Hours A Day (Hardcover). Hazelden Publishing & Educational Services, Center City, 1954.

Price: US$27.73 + shipping

Condition: New

Description: Hardcover. This best-selling meditation book for those in recovery offers daily thoughts, meditations, and prayers for living a clean and sober life. Since 1954, Twenty-Four Hours a Day has become a stable force in the recovery of many alcoholics throughout the world. With over nine million copies in print (the original text has been revised), this "little black book" offers daily thoughts, meditations, and prayers for living a clean and sober life. A spiritual resource with practical applications to fit our daily lives."For yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision" is part of the Sanskrit proverb quoted at the beginning of the book which has become one of the basic building blocks for a life of sobriety. In addition to a thought, meditation and prayer for each day of the year, this handy, pocket-sized volume also contains the Serenity Prayer and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous. It is a simple, yet effective way to help us relate the Twelve Steps to everyday life and helps us find the power not to take that first drink each day. Since 1954, "Twenty-Four Hours a Day" has become a stable force in the recovery of many alcoholics throughout the world. With over nine million copies in print (the original text has been revised), this "little black book" offers daily thoughts, meditations, and prayers for living a clean and sober life. A spiritual resource with practical applications to fit our daily lives. "For yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision" is part of the Sanskrit proverb quoted at the beginning of the book which has become one of the basic building blocks for a life of sobriety. In addition to a thought, meditation and prayer for each day of the year, this handy, pocket-sized volume also contains the Serenity Prayer and the 12 Steps and 12 Traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous. It is a simple, yet effective way to help us relate the Twelve Steps to everyday life and helps us find the power not to take that first drink each day. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

Seller: AussieBookSeller, Truganina, VIC, Australia

Anonymous. Twenty-Four Hours a Day. HAZELDEN PUB, 1954.

Price: US$28.07 + shipping

Condition: New

Description: Über den AutorrnrnHazelden Publishing respects the wishes of authors who choose to remain anonymous.KlappentextrnrnSince 1954, Twenty-Four Hours a Day has become a stable force in the recovery of many alcoholics throug.

Seller: moluna, Greven, Germany

Confidential Incorporated. Confidential Magazine: Uncensored and On The Record from September 1954. Confidential Incorporated, New York, 1954.

Price: US$39.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Wraps (PB) in very good condition with browning and few tiny enclosed tears to page edges.Confidential Magazine: Uncensored and On The Record from September 1954. This issue contains an article called Alcoholics Anonymous, No Booze But Plenty of Babes, by Homer H. Shannon. Ted Williams "Loner" article, Billy Eckstine Van Johnson, Rita Hayworth's neglected children and more. 66pages with period ads.

Seller: David Gaines, Eureka, CA, U.S.A.

Jackson A. Smith. Alcoholism. J.B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, 1954.

Price: US$45.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First Edition ( 'Published in book form, April, 1954' ). Very uncommon book, only one other for sale on the Internet. You can see the covers in the photos. They are in nice shape. The edges and corners are free of wear. The spine looks very good as well. The red lettering on the front cover and on the spine is very bright. The page edges are very clean. The book is square. The spine is straight. The binding is very solid from cover to cover. There are seven or eight tiny tears (see photo) along the juncture between the blank verso of the half-title page and the title page. However both pages are solidly bound, and every single other page within the book is perfectly bound at its juncture. The juncture between the covers and their endpapers is also perfectly fine. If you push at the spine from the side it will jiggle a little bit, but it is very solidly in place in the covers are perfectly tight. The interior of the book is in excellent condition. The pages look very good. Two have a sliver of tanning just off their middle edge. All the rest are perfectly clean. I'm not seeing any creasing. There are no markings. No attachments. And no one has written their name or anything else anywhere in the book. I've provided a photograph of the Contents page. The Introduction begins: 'During the past decade an increased awareness of the problem of alcoholism has occurred; in this period the management has altered from an ineffectual punitive approach to more effective medical and psychiatric methods of treatment. The change is not unlike that which occurred earlier in the treatment of mental disease. A great deal of the credit for this increased understanding of the alcoholic belongs to the group known as Alcoholics Anonymous, and resulted from their admirable efforts in caring for the individual alcoholic and their education of the public. The present volume is intended as an inclusive but concise presentation of the presently recognized forms of therapy. The subject is approached impartially on the basis of experience and treatment and on results reported in the medical literature.'

Seller: Rareeclectic, pound ridge, NY, U.S.A.

Henry Beetle Hough. An Alcoholic to His Sons: As Told to Henry Beetle Hough. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1954.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Written by the long time editor of The Vineyard Gazette. Dust jacket with some light edgewear and light soiling to extremities.

Seller: 32.1 Rare Books + Ephemera, IOBA, ESA, Princeton, NJ, U.S.A.

Charles H Durfee. Should You Drink. Macmillan Company, 1954.

Price: US$115.49 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: The Covers Are In Very Good Condition, 152 Pages No Index. 1St Edition 1954. 1St Printing Stated On The Copyright Page. Creased Dust Jacket With Small Tears All Around The Edges. Pages Are Yellow From The Age.- We ship from Canada and the USA. Specializing in academic, collectible and historically significant, providing the utmost quality and customer service satisfaction. For any questions feel free to email us.

Seller: Monarchy books, Toronto, ON, Canada

Alcoholics Anonymous. The Alcoholic Husband, A Message to Wives (25M1055). Alcoholics Anonymous Publishing, Inc., New York, 1954.

Price: US$125.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Paper stapled wraps. No previous owners' names or other markings. Small chips to wraps' fore-edge; foxing, primarily to exterior (see images). 4 x 9 inches. Shipped through boxed USPS Priority insured mail.

Seller: William Chrisant & Sons, ABAA, ILAB. IOBA, ABA, Ephemera Society, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.

Caron, Richard. Chit-Chat [Weekly Newsletter, Alcoholics Anonymous] 20 Issues, August 20, 1954 - December 31, 1954. Richard Caron, Robesonia, PA, 1954.

Price: US$385.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: [Caron Foundation]; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 39 pages; 20 Issues, August 20, 1954 - December 31, 1954. Robesonia [Berks County] PA. Type script mimeo printed on legal sized paper. Each issue, save for one, is 2 pages printed single side only and corner stapled in the top left corner. A sequential run of 20 issues of Caron's rare newsletter sent to AA friends and associates and "loners" all over the world without the resource of an AA chapter or 12 step group. Caron began his newsletter in the early days of his sobriety in 1952 as a follow on from an inter-group newsletter started when he was in St Paul MN. The newsletter aimed at providing support and encouragement to those struggling with alcoholism and contained articles about AA, personal stories of recovery, and practical advice for maintaining sobriety. He provided the newsletter free of charge to anyone worldwide who sent a letter with request. A sort of AA meeting by newsletter, as he shared with readers details and inspiration sent to him in the mail. Caron maintained the newsletter from 1952 until just prior to his death in 1975. It was only in 1953 or so that Caron and his wife began taking in men and women to their home for rehabilitation from alcoholism. Out of this largeness of spirit, eventually the Carons opened Chit Chat farms as a treatment and rehabilitation facility, which later became the Caron foundation. This scarce set of early newsletters provides a window into understanding the approach of Caron to rehabilitation through encouragement, inspiration and generosity of spirit. The newsletters have the expected mailing folds and have here and there some superficial soiling and mild toning and light handling evidence. About VG . No examples of the Newsletter are located in Worldcat and rarely are seen in the marketplace.

Seller: DogStar Books, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.

WILSON, Bill.. Alcoholics Anonymous.. WORKS PUBLISHING INC. & ALANON PUBLICATIONS BM/Found., New York & London, 1954.

Price: US$12500.00 + shipping

Description: Half-title + TP + v-vi = Contents + vii-viii = Foreword + half-title + 1-400 + 1 blank leaf, Octavo. First UK Edition, First Printing.The TRUE First Printing of the First UK Edition of the Big Book, Alcoholics AnonymousThere is no publication date noted on the title page but the verso carries the notation "First Printing in England 1954" appearing beneath a list of all the US printings of the book from the first in "April, 1939" to the fourteenth in "July, 1951".The binding of the book is similar to contemporary American printings except that this UK binding has blue boards that are textured with a woven pattern rather than the uniformly smooth blue boards used in the 1950s American printings of the book. The front cover has the embossed words "Alcoholics Anonymous" (similar to the US version) and the words "Alcoholics Anonymous" printed in gilt at the top of the spine. If the book comes with a dust jacket - as this copy does - it is one that is blank on all of the outside surfaces: i.e. there is no printing on the front, rear or spine of the dust jacket. The only printing on the jacket occurs on the inside front and rear flaps - which has two quotes from the book and notes the price of 25s in the text found on the inside front flap.The change of name from Works Publishing to Alcoholics Anonymous Publishing did not happen in the USA until the fifteenth printing of January, 1954 (where it appeared on the title page, but not in the contact information supplied on page 398 - which still said Works Publishing) and in the sixteenth printing of August, 1954 (which says Alcoholics Anonymous Publishing in both places). This securely places the printing of this first UK edition in 1954, but provides no indication of what specific month it might have been printed in that year. [See below for evidence that the book was published in December of that year.]Strangely, the verso of the title page to this first UK edition notes the existence of only fourteen printings of first edition having been printed in the USA - without mentioning either the fifteenth printing of January, 1954 or the sixteenth of August, 1954. The type, text and spacing of this book are all identical to that found in the last four printings (13th, 14th, 15th & 16th) of the American edition. However, this first UK edition has a footnote on page 25 stating that "A.A. is now composed of 3500 groups (1950)." This version of the footnote only appeared in the 13th and 14th US printings of the Big Book [the 15th and 16th printings both say "5,000 groups (1954)]. Taken together, this evidence confirms the stated publication date of 1954 for the first UK edition of the Big Book. NOTE also that in the third printing of this UK edition - using exactly the same text internally - notes on the verso of the title page: "First Printed in England 1954 / Second Impression 1956 / Third Impression 1958." We know this to be the very first printing of the book in the UK from two sources. First of all, there is a copy identical to this in Bill Wilson's personal library, currently housed at his home, Stepping Stones, in Bedford Hills, NY. That catalog listing reads:Alcoholics Anonymous 1939, First Printing in England, by Works Publishing and Alanon Publications, 1954. Dark blue cover; plain book jacket with printing only on inside. Inscribed: To Bill Wilson, In humble gratitude for the things which have come to us through God and the channels He has used. Bill Hopper, Joe Tomkins, Bob Bauld, Alan Booth. Dec. 1954.This would place the printing of this book in December - after the 15th and 16th printings of the US edition noted above.A copy similar to this is also identified and talked about in the official GSO Archives publication, Markings, Your Archives Interchange, noting that "it is believed that there were only 200 copies of the British First Edition/first printing, of the Big Book published in Great Britain, and the same four people [who were responsible for producing this UK edition] appa

Seller: Athena Rare Books ABAA, Fairfield, CT, U.S.A.