Alcoholics Anonymous The Big Book Study Edition (Softcover)
Includes pages 1-164 and: - The original Foreword - The Doctor's Opinion - Dr. Bob's Story - Spiritual Experience
- Entire Original Manuscript (about)including the stories. Includes paragraph numbers corresponding to the modern text for easy comparison.
- Footnotes explaining historical and obscure references in the text.
- Footnotes documenting 79 of the differences between the modern text and the original 1st printing text of the 1st 164 pages (about). Though many don't know it, the basic text has been changed many times since it was first published.
- Word Index
- Subject Index
- Word Definitions
- Special "lay flat" binding
Word Index- Practically every word in the main text indexed by paragraph number.
Subject Index- References to all the common study subjects indexed by paragraph number.
Dictionary- Definitions to the obscure and key words taken from dictionaries in use at the time the book was written. Mostly from the 1937 Unabridged Webster's Dictionary.