Bar Room Reveries

Bar Room Reveries

The joke book Ed Webster published in 1958

Some photos of the extremely rare book which Ed Webster published in 1958 called Bar Room Reveries, supplied to us by Brian T., to whom we owe great thanks.

Ed printed a thousand copies of it at that time. It was a book of jokes, which was not well received in many A.A. circles, so the book was never reprinted. Many A.A. historians are not even aware of its existence.

Ed Webster (who also authored The Little Red Book), Bar Room Reveries, front cover

The front cover of Bar Room Reveries

Ed Webster, Bar Room Reveries, closeup of front cover

A closeup of the cartoon on the front cover

Ed Webster, Bar Room Reveries, back cover (a joke book from the author of The Little Red Book)

The back cover of Bar Room Reveries

Ed Webster, Bar Room Reveries, closeup of back cover

Closeup of the drunk and the dog on the back cover

The title page of Bar Room Reveries, published as we can see in 1958. The "Coll-Webb Company" meant that Barry COLLins and Ed WEBster printed it and distributed it themselves, just as they had done with The Little Red Book.

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