Co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (1895–1971), the treatment program which has helped millions of people recover from a disease long stigmatized and regarded as irreversible. Signed book: Alcoholics Anonymous. Tenth printing. NY: Works Publishing, 1946. Hardcover with reproduction dustjacket, 6 x 8.5, 400 pages. Signed in blue ink on the first free end page, “Affectionately, Bill, Mar/48,” and also signed on the same page and inside front cover by 20 others involved in the program. In very good condition, with toning and foxing to signed page, not detracting from Wilson’s large signature, light fraying to front and back boards and spine, mild toning to inside pages, and aforementioned reproduction dustjacket. A presentable copy of a title uncommon in signed examples and undoubtably belonging to an A. A. member. RRAuction COA.
