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AA Grapevine

This collection includes the AA Grapevine Magazines. These are great gifts to give to Sponsors, Sponsees, and friends in celebration of a sobriety anniversary!

The Grapevine was created by six AA members in the New York area — four women and two men. With the blessings of AA's co-founder Bill W., they published the first issue in June 1944, just nine years after the founding of AA. A copy of that first issue was sent to every AA group — about 300 at the time — and to all known AA members in the armed services overseas. An entire page with the heading, "Mail Call for All AAs in the Armed Forces," was devoted to letters from these members, who began calling the Grapevine their "meeting in print." The title stuck, and today the Grapevine and La Viña carry it on their covers.

At the heart of the early Grapevines, then as now, were first-person stories. There were also news and notes on current happenings at the Central Office, plus reports of the explosion of new groups in North America and around the world. In addition to AA news, there were book reviews and magazine reprints and pieces written by non-AAs, including some well-known literary figures. Discussed were such burning topics of the day as the place of women in AA, returning veterans, and cross-addiction.

By the fourth issue, the magazine began printing this description of itself under the masthead:

A monthly Journal devoted to those seeking further knowledge on the problem of alcoholism, in the hope that it may prove a unifying bond to all alcoholics everywhere. Individual opinions expressed here are not, necessarily, those of AA as a whole.

The AA Grapevine was in fact appealing to "alcoholics everywhere" and in 1945, at the request of the groups, it became the national journal of Alcoholics Anonymous. Four years later, when the Grapevine's readership had expanded to include members in Canada and Europe, the designation was changed to the international journal of Alcoholics Anonymous.

Later issues of the Grapevine reported on important developments in the growth of the Fellowship, worldwide, such as the birth of the General Service Structure, World Service Meetings, and the publication of the Third and Fourth editions of the Big Book. The history of the Grapevine is the history of the growth of Alcoholics Anonymous. In 1986, the General Service Conference reaffirmed the magazine's place in AA with an advisory action that recognized it as the international journal of Alcoholics Anonymous.

Enjoy Shopping in this collection of AA Grapevine Magazine's.

  • AA Grapevine May 1974 - Gossip Recovery Collectibles
    AA Grapevine May 1974 - Gossip Recovery Collectibles

    AA Grapevine May 1974 - Gossip

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    This is the May 1974 issue of the AA Grapevine. This issue includes the headline articles; “Gossip”, “Let me Take Your Inventory”, and “Guilt is a ...

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  • AA Grapevine May 1974 - Let Me Take Your Inventory Recovery Collectibles
    AA Grapevine May 1974 - Let Me Take Your Inventory Recovery Collectibles

    AA Grapevine May 1974 - Let Me Take Your Inventory

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    This is the May 1974 issue of the AA Grapevine. This issue includes the headline articles; “Gossip”, “Let me Take Your Inventory”, and “Guilt is a ...

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  • AA Grapevine May 1974 - Evolution of the 12th Step Recovery Collectibles
    AA Grapevine May 1974 - Evolution of the 12th Step Recovery Collectibles

    AA Grapevine May 1974 - Evolution of the 12th Step

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    This is the May 1974 issue of the AA Grapevine. This issue includes the headline articles; “Gossip”, “Let me Take Your Inventory”, “Guilt is a Cunn...

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  • AA Grapevine May 1974 - Because We Need One Another Recovery Collectibles
    AA Grapevine May 1974 - Because We Need One Another Recovery Collectibles

    AA Grapevine May 1974 - Because We Need One Another

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    This is the May 1974 issue of the AA Grapevine. This issue includes the headline articles; “Gossip”, “Let me Take Your Inventory”, “Guilt is a Cunn...

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  • AA Grapevine May 1974 Recovery Collectibles
    AA Grapevine May 1974 Recovery Collectibles

    AA Grapevine May 1974

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    This is the May 1974 issue of the AA Grapevine. This issue includes the headline articles; “Gossip”, “Let me Take Your Inventory”, “Guilt is a Cunn...

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  • AA Grapevine May 1974 - Power For This One Day Recovery Collectibles
    AA Grapevine May 1974 - Power For This One Day Recovery Collectibles

    AA Grapevine May 1974 - Power For This One Day

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    This is the May 1974 issue of the AA Grapevine. This issue includes the headline articles; “Gossip”, “Let me Take Your Inventory”, “Guilt is a Cunn...

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  • AA Grapevine - AA and the Military - January 1974 Recovery Collectibles
    AA Grapevine - AA and the Military - January 1974 Recovery Collectibles

    AA Grapevine - AA and the Military - January 1974

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    This is the January 1974 issue of the AA Grapevine. This issue includes a section of articles on “AA and the Military”. Also included are the headl...

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  • AA Grapevine - Prison AA - February 1974 Recovery Collectibles
    AA Grapevine - Prison AA - February 1974 Recovery Collectibles

    AA Grapevine - Prison AA - February 1974

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    This is the February 1974 issue of the AA Grapevine. This issue includes the headline articles; “Apathetics Anonymous”, “Courage to Change”, and “H...

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  • AA Grapevine - March 1974 Recovery Collectibles
    AA Grapevine - March 1974 Recovery Collectibles

    AA Grapevine - March 1974

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    This is the March 1974 issue of the AA Grapevine. This issue includes the headline articles; “No Time for Self-Pity”, “An AA Doctor Responds”, “Ene...

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  • AA Grapevine - Amnesia - April 1974 Recovery Collectibles
    AA Grapevine - Amnesia - April 1974 Recovery Collectibles

    AA Grapevine - Amnesia - April 1974

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    This is the April 1974 issue of the AA Grapevine. This issue includes the articles; “Amnesia”, “A Suggested Program for Meditation”, and much more!...

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  • AA Grapevine - Gossip - May 1974 Recovery Collectibles
    AA Grapevine - Gossip - May 1974 Recovery Collectibles

    AA Grapevine - Gossip - May 1974

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    This is the May 1974 issue of the AA Grapevine. This issue includes the headline articles; “Gossip”, “Let me Take Your Inventory”, and “Guilt is a ...

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  • AA Grapevine - 30th Anniversary Issue - June 1974 Recovery Collectibles
    AA Grapevine - 30th Anniversary Issue - June 1974 Recovery Collectibles

    AA Grapevine - 30th Anniversary Issue - June 1974

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    This is the June 1974 30th Anniversary issue of the AA Grapevine. This issue includes the articles; “Thirty Years of Grapevine History”, “The Act o...

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  • AA Grapevine - The Enablers - October 1974 Recovery Collectibles
    AA Grapevine - The Enablers - October 1974 Recovery Collectibles

    AA Grapevine - The Enablers - October 1974

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    This is the October 1974 issue of the AA Grapevine. This issue includes the articles; “The Enablers”, “I Can’t Wear Two Hats”, “A Family Affair”, a...

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  • AA Grapevine - Classic Grapevine - November 1974 Recovery Collectibles
    AA Grapevine - Classic Grapevine - November 1974 Recovery Collectibles

    AA Grapevine - Classic Grapevine - November 1974

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    This is the November 1974 Classic Grapevine issue of the AA Grapevine. This issue features “Bill W, E.M. Jellinek, Carl Jung, and others in ten art...

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  • AA Grapevine December 1974 - AA Lingo Recovery Collectibles
    AA Grapevine December 1974 - AA Lingo Recovery Collectibles

    AA Grapevine December 1974 - AA Lingo

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    This is the December 1974 issue of the AA Grapevine. This issue includes the articles; “His Eye is in the Sparrow”, “Guilt”, “AA Lingo”, and much m...

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  • AA Grapevine November 1974 - Classic Grapevine Recovery Collectibles
    AA Grapevine November 1974 - Classic Grapevine Recovery Collectibles

    AA Grapevine November 1974 - Classic Grapevine

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    This is the November 1974 Classic Grapevine issue of the AA Grapevine. This issue features “Bill W, E.M. Jellinek, Carl Jung, and others in ten art...

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  • AA Grapevine October 1974 - The Enablers Recovery Collectibles
    AA Grapevine October 1974 - The Enablers Recovery Collectibles

    AA Grapevine October 1974 - The Enablers

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    This is the October 1974 issue of the AA Grapevine. This issue includes the articles; “The Enablers”, “I Can’t Wear Two Hats”, “A Family Affair”, a...

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