NMLP P-040184 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19

Alcoholics Anonymous (the 'Big Book')

[Bill Wilson et al.] · Works Publishing Company (New York) · 1939

US only. Works Publishing Company, New York, April 1939 is the true first; there is no competing UK or original-language edition and the text was written in English. Imprint trap: the book is now published by A.A. World Services, and any copy bearing that imprint is a later edition regardless of a 1939 copyright line.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-040184 for "Alcoholics Anonymous (the 'Big Book')" by [Bill Wilson et al.] (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-040184, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).