Inscribed and signed by AA co-founder Bill Wilson in blue ink “Dear Fred [Wyatt] – This in grateful memory of your friendship and of the old days! Affectionately, Bill, NY, Feb/20/57.” Fred Wyatt was a former journalist for the San Francisco “Call” and U.S. Marine who served in WWII. The AA “Big Book” in the original red cloth; one of the most influential and important books of the twentieth century, changing millions of lives through it’s revered methods of self-treatment and helping alcoholics survive their confrontation with the "demon rum." With "Copyright, April, 1939" on the copyright page. Only 4,650 copies printed of this highly desirable first printing. An inked note to Fred Wyatt regarding this signed book in an unknown hand, laid in.