NMLP P-040181 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

Alcoholics Anonymous (the 'Big Book')

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

The sheets are printed on the thickest, cheapest bulking stock the printer had, with wide margins, which is why the volume is unusually thick and how it earned the 'Big Book' nickname; later printings use thinner paper and a visibly slimmer text block

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-040181 for "Alcoholics Anonymous (the 'Big Book')" by [Bill Wilson et al.] (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-040181, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).