Author: Clapp, Charles
Title: The Big Bender
Description: New York, Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1938. First edition. Hardcover. pp. vii, 171. 8vo. Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. With drawings by Oscar Howard. Minor scuffing to edges, ink name, offsetting to rear endpaper (from glue used in production). Lacks jacket. In this scarce and early recovery memoir, Clapp relates his struggles with alcoholism, and his experience getting sober, which he did with the help of Bill Wilson, founder of Alcoholics Anonymous. Clapp was a member of the Oxford Group, a Christian movement and one of the sources of A. A. This book predated the publication of the Big Book and was influential in recovery circles, leading to it's sustained collectability. .

Keywords: Memoir; Alcoholics Anonymous;