The Anonymous Press Study Edition of Alcoholics Anonymous (Black)

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This book is perfect study guide.The blank page on one side is perfect for taking notes.

This is THE book for the serious student of the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous! I cannot say enough good things about this book, or stress its importance enough if you are interested in working your 12 Step Program of Recovery the way our founders did! I am a prolific note taker, so the note pages are perfect for me. The ribbons make it easy for me to find the start and end points each week for the BB Study Group that we chair.Filled with history of our program, footnotes, dictionary, glossary, as well as the Original Manuscript written by Bill W., completely unaltered. We chair 2 meeting per week, our BB Study, as well as a 12 Steps and 12 Traditions meeting, (For that, we use the "Original 1946 Edition-Little Red Book" for the same reason, in our meetings, we want to know how the founders worked the Program that enabled them to say "...we who have RECOVERED" and caused them to see 75-100% recovery rates, as compared to the dismal 8% recovery rates reported by the General Service Offices for AA today.The founders knew, in order to recover from a "hopeless state of mind and body", they needed to recognize and accept that their disease had placed them "beyond human aid" and that a vital spiritual experience was the only thing that could restore them to sanity and remove the compulsion and obsession to drink."If you are a serious student of the Big Book, an old timer, or a new comer, this book is for you! And to be able to purchase such a high quality, leather bound volume at such a remarkable price, it a real find!

So, overall I LOVE this book.Pros:There's SO much room for notes. I love love love that! It's really great quality! The original manuscript in the back is awesome and I love the dictionary and the word index.Cons :They took out the preface. Which is sad. I added a copy into the blank cover section. So i'll make it work.Also it has the forward but took out the forward to the 2nd, 3rd and 4th edition. Ok I can live without those I suppose but when you get to the doctor's opinion the page numbers don't line up to the original text as you can see in the picture which as you see in my pictures I crossed out and kept the original numbering.I think the book is worth those defects because you can just have a copy of the preface Andre number the doctor's opinion. And by the time you get to Bill's story page one the page numbers are back on track to the original.Not perfect but if you are a big note-taker like I am this book is for you and worth the discrepancies.

it has note pages for every printed page so ample space for notes. Dictionary, word and subject indexes, and bookmarks !!! Wonderful for personal study and sponsorship.highly recommend!!

First of all, The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous is NOT a book to be read alone. I always recommend reading it with someone who is familiar with the program because it is written in the "language of recovery". The absolutely amazing thing about this "study edition" is that it has foot notes telling the reader who some is in the story. For example, we are very clearly told that the alcoholic Dr. Silkworth is talking about is Bill W.The font size is great and the fact that each page has a lined "notebook" page opposite it for note taking is wonderful.This would be a perfect book for anyone in an AWOL or BBSS.

The Big Book of A.A. has been through 4 revisions in the official printed edition. This book goes back to the very early days when the material was first typed up and submitted for review. This book even includes the typographical errors and small word changes that were fixed for the First official edition. Each edition has some of the previous personal stories with some new ones. So even if you have read most of the personal stories in the first 4 editions, you'll still find some that you haven't seen yet in this volume. My only real complaint is that the print is small in this book and my vision isn't as sharp as it was years ago. So if they ever print another version of this, please make the print bigger.

Yes yes and yes, just what I needed for BBA ❤️

The media could not be loaded. Anyone in AA should get this book n cherish it forever

So hard to get hold of this in this country, but delighted that now it is becoming available; I tried to get hold of one a year ago and failed miserably.It's a super book, made to last, and has a blank lined page for every printed page, so there is plenty of room for making notes, and more notes through the years. Though I would prefer these to be unlined, as I am able to write (and read) very small lettering.However it is a delight to have and to use.It is approximately 16 cm broad x 24 cm high and 5 1/4 cm thick. (6.25" x 9.3" x 2.2"). With a padded maroon coloured faux leather cover; stitched (I think) spine; and 2 ribbon place markers. Also the edges of the pages are gilded.It contains: On the first printed page, printed tabs to help you quickly find the most useful pages, such as 'How it Works' and 'The Promises'. These tabs are also printed on the relevant pages; After this there is the first Forward, (but not the Forwards to later editions, which we may be accustomed to reading.) It then appears to go right through to page 164 of the original book; after which is printed the chapter 'A Doctors Nightmare', and the short note from pages 569 and 570 entitled 'Spiritual Experience'. After all of this is a further section without blank pages, which is a reproduction of the Original Manuscript from 1938, the copy which was circulated among the members and newcomers before the Big Book was published, containing personal stories. Then there is a very useful section with word definitions from Webster's Universal Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language from 1937, which is very useful for the understanding of some pf the words and terms from the original manuscript and the printed AA Big Book, which may have changed meaning and usage in the intervening years. After this there are also a Word Index, and a Subject Index.It is taken all in all, very useful, and sure to see lots of use, so long as I can overcome my reticence to sully it's pages!I wholeheartedly recommend this book, if you can get hold of it at all.

I love this study guide. Excellent for anyone wanting to make notes as well as geek out on the history of AA and the twelve step programs.

excellent edition for this studying "the book" or "going through the work".Comes with:paragraph numbers making it easy to reference.A lined page inserted between each page for taking notes.An index which is very helpful.Also has a copy of the original manuscript for those interested.beautiful book to see also, would make a beautiful present for someone too.

Exactly as described, love the manuscript in the back and the same for writing!