Big Book Page xiii
Foreword to First Edition
"FOREWORD TO FIRST EDITION This is the Foreword as it appeared in the first printing of the first edition in 1939. W e, of Alcoholics Anonymous, are more than one hundred men and women who have recovered from a seemingly hopeless state of mind and body."— Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, page xiii. A short quotation, for identification and study. Read the whole page in your own copy →
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What part of the Big Book is page xiii in?
Page xiii is in Foreword to First Edition of Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition.
What is on page xiii of the Big Book?
Page xiii sits in Foreword to First Edition. Reading the page itself, its language turns on employment, anonymity. Recovery Starts does not reproduce the Big Book — the book belongs to A.A. — so to read the page in full, get your own copy.
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