Bidders cast sober judgment on an Alcoholics Anonymous rarity
The first lot offered in Potter & Potter’s (20% buyer’s premium) auction in Chicago on September 10 was a 1939 first edition, first printing of 'Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How More Than One Hundred Men Have Recovered from Alcoholism'.
This enormously influential book, which popularised the Alcoholics Anonymous self-help group and i…