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.
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AA Grapevine from January 1954
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AA Grapevine from February 1954 - A Fragment of History by Bill
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AA Grapevine from April 1954
Original price $115 - Original price $115Original price$115$115 - $115Current price $115This is the April 1954, issue of the AA Grapevine. This issue features the articles ”Education for Privacy”, “High Bottom Alcoholics”, “Minutes if ...
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AA Grapevine from August 1954 - Hospitals and Prisons
Original price $115 - Original price $115Original price$115$115 - $115Current price $115This is the August 1954, issue of the AA Grapevine. This issue features the articles ”The Twelve Steps and the Older Member”, “Case History of a Dr...
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AA Grapevine from October 1954
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AA Grapevine from December 1954
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AA Grapevine from February 1955
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AA Grapevine from April 1955
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AA Grapevine from June 1955 - International Convention Program
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AA Grapevine from August 1955 - Convention Highlights
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AA Grapevine from February 1956
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AA Grapevine from March 1956
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AA Grapevine from March 1957
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AA Grapevine from September 1957
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AA Grapevine from October 1957 - AA Comes of Age
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AA Grapevine from November 1957 - Traditions Month
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AA Grapevine from March 1958 - Let’s Be Friendly With Our Friends by Bill
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AA Grapevine from May 1958
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AA Grapevine from June 1958 - Take Step Eleven by Bill
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AA Grapevine from July 1958
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AA Grapevine from October 1958 - International Issue
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AA Grapevine from November 1958 - Traditions Month
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AA Grapevine from December 1958 - Christmas Editorial by Bill
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AA Grapevine from February 1959
Original price $65 - Original price $65Original price$65$65 - $65Current price $65This is the February 1959, issue of the AA Grapevine. This issue features the articles “And Then the Lights Came On”, “Let’s Face It”, “I’m Differe...
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