8vo. Original blue cloth; dust jacket; publisher's printed wrap-around band (creases to band at rear, minor rubbing, small loss at upper rear spine).

Second edition, first printing. Bill W., as Wilson preferred to be known, founded Alcoholics Anonymous along with Dr. Bob Smith in 1935 as a means of helping others to overcome their addictions to alcohol. "The Big Book," as it came to be called, was written primarily by Bill W. with input by his right-hand man, Hank Pankhurst, and was published in 1939. This book, along with the organization founded, helped to change popular perception of alcoholism as a moral failing to one of alcoholism as a disease in and of itself. WITH THE RARE WRAP-AROUND BAND.