Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc.
Sydney: Australian General Service Office of A.A., 1986.

The Story of How Many Thousands of Men and Women Have Recovered from Alcoholism. The First Australian Edition, from the 1985 Twenty-first printing of the American Third Edition, printed in Australia with an Australian Edition binding, jacket, and with two leaves for connecting with Australian services. “Originally published in 1939, when A.A. membership numbered only about one hundred, the first edition of this book went through more than 300,000 copies. The second edition, appearing in 1955, when memerbship had reached past 150,000, eventually brought the total distribution to over 1,450,000 copies. The third edition, which provides the basis of this first Australian printing, appeared in 1976 when A.A. membership worldwide was estimated conservatively at 1,000,000. .. The First Edition of the Australian printing of this book heralds a new era in self-sufficiency for Alcoholics Anonymous in Australia, with a Fellowship now over 1,000 groups nationwide since inception in 1945.” (from jacket blurb)