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Letter of Endorsement from Television Newscasters 'Juliette,' featuring Ken Shabby and Rosemary
Why Accountancy is Not Boring, by A. Putey
Campaign Literature for the Silly Party
Batley Ladies' Townswomen's Guild
Sports Page, with Jimmy Buzzard and Ken Clean-Air System
The importance of Being Earnest--a new version by Billy Bremner
Sir Kenneth Clarke--Are You Civilized?
The Greatest Upper-Class (Twit) Race in the World
Goat's Page
Johnson's Novelties ('Guaranteed to break the ice at parties')
Letter Retracting the Endorsement of the Book
Lumberjack Song
Whizzo Chocolate Assortment
How to Walk Silly
Poems of Ewan McTeagle
Piranha Brothers
THE BRAND NEW MONTY PYTHON BOK (hardcover)
Methuen, 1973 (U.K.) Henry Regnery, 1976 (U.S.) ISBN 0-8092-8046-9
Contents are the same the paperback, except for the cover under the dust jacket.
THE BRAND NEW MONTY PYTHON PAPPERBOK
Methuen, 1974 (U.K.) Warner Books, 1976 (U.S.) ISBN 0-446-87-078-1
Biggles is Extremely Silly (1938)
Notice of the Availability of Film Rights to Page Six
The Bigot (a newsletter)
The London Casebook of Detective Rene Descartes
The Adventures of Walter Wallabee (comic strip)
Film Review with Phillip Jenkinson
Rat Recipes and Chez Rat (menu)
The British Apathy League
Let's Talk About Bottoms
Page 71
Ferndean School Report for God
Cheeseshop (The Word Game)
The Official Medallic Commemoration of the History of Mankind
The Anagrams Gape (4) and the Anagram-Haters Page
Teach Yourself Surgery
THE COMPLETE WORKS OF SHAKESPEARE AND MONTY PYTHON: VOLUME ONE-MONTY PYTHON
Methuen, 1981, ISBN 0-413-49450-0
A British compilation of Big Red Book and Brand New Monty Python Book.
THE MONTY PYTHON GIFT BOOKS
Methuen, 1988, ISBN 0-413-14520-4
A repackaging of the 'Monty Python's Big Red Book' and 'The Brand New Monty Python Papperbok', with an additional poster
MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL (BOOK)
Methuen, 1977, ISBN :0749311428
Contains the first draft, final draft, production notes, sketches, and both production and candid photos, and is packaged to look like an actual script.
MONTY PYTHON'S THE LIFE OF BRIAN / MONTYPYTHONSCRAPBOOK
Methuen, 1979 (U.K.) Fred Jordan Books/Grosset & Dunlop, 1979 (U.S.) ISBN 0-448-16568-6
The first half of the book contains the final script of the film, illustrated with photos from the movie; The second half contains the following:
How it All Began: a comic strip featuring three shepherds
Diaries of Terry Jones and Michael Palin
What to Take on Filming
Python Cinema Quiz
Brian Feeds the Multitude
'Sharing' Magazine with 'Sharing a Caravan with John Cleese'
The Gilliam Collection of Famous Film Titles
Cleese vs. The Evening Standard
Doc. Chapman's Medical Page
MONTY PYTHON'S LIFE OF BRIAN
Ace Books, 1979, ISBN 0-441-48240-6
A paperback version of the script, including the photos from the above collection, but without the scrapbook portion.
MONTY PYTHON'S THE MEANING OF LIFE
Methuen (U.K.) Grove Press (U.S.) 1983, ISBN 0-3)4-62474-2
This trade paperback reproduces, in full color. the entire script; complete with color illustrations and many photographs from the film; includes segments removed from the final print of the film such as 'The Adventures of Martin Luther;' also includes many photographs from the Terry Gilliam short film 'The Crimson Permanent Assurance'
MONTY PYTHON: JUST THE WORDS
(sometimes known as The Complete Monty Python) Methuen (U.K.)/Pantheon (U.S.) (1989)
Volumes one and two (which were released seperately) combined together into one regular size paperback; volume two is printed upside-down; includes two sections of photographs from the television series.
THE COMPLETE MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS: ALL THE WORDS VOLUME 1
Pantheon Books 1989; ISBN: 0679726470
The complete collection of scripts from the 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' television series. This book covers episodes #1 through #23. Volume 2 covers #24 though #45
THE COMPLETE MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS: ALL THE WORDS VOLUME 2
Pantheon Books 1989; ISBN: 0679726489
The complete collection of scripts from the 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' television series. This book covers episodes #24 through #45. Volume 1 covers #1 through #23
THE FAIRLY INCOMPLETE & RATHER BADLY ILLUSTRATED MONTY PYTHON SONG BOOK
Methuen London, Ltd., 1994 (U.K.) ISBN :0060951168
Comes with free CD single which includes the Spam Song and the Lumberjack Song. Also includes lyrics and voice scores to virtually all of the Monty Python songs, such as the Lumberjack Song (including the Holzfaeller version from the German episodes), the Spam Song, the Philosopher's Song, and Always Look on the Bright Side of Life; it is illustrated with Terry Gilliam's artwork and a collection of photographs from the television series and movies.
LIFE OF PYTHON (by George Perry)
Pavilion Books, 1983 (U.K.) ISBN 1-85145-057-2 (***)
Little, Brown and Company, 1983 (U.S.) ISBN 0-316-70015-0 (paperback)
A biography of the group, with individual chapters devoted to each of the six members, with an index. George Perry, the author, published an updated version in 1994.
THE LIFE OF PYTHON: THE HISTORY OF SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT (by George Perry)
Pavilion Books, 1994 (U.K.) ISBN 1-857-93441-5 (***)
Running Press Book Publishers, 1995 (U.S.) ISBN 1-56138-568-9 (paperback)
A 1994 update to George Perry's 1983 book 'Life of Python' includes updated biographies of all six Python members, new introduction, photographs, and text. Also includes an updated Pythonography
LIFE BEFORE AND AFTER MONTY PYTHON: THE SOLO FLIGHTS OF THE FLYING CIRCUS (by Kim Johnson)
St. Martin's Press, 1993 (U.S.) ISBN 0-312-08695-4 (paperback)
Plexus Publishing, 1993 (U.K.) ISBN 0-859-65206-8 (***)
Information on most of the individual efforts, books, recordings, and films of the Python members both before and after the troupe's existence; Kim Johnson also wrote two other Python books: 'The First 20 Years of Monty Python' and 'And Now For Something Completely Trivial'
The Monty Python Encyclopedia (by Robert Ross)
TV Books (May 1999) ISBN: 1575000369
A compendium of all-things Python. One of the best sources for Monty Python information.
The First 280 Years of Monty Python (by Kim Johnson)
St. Martin's Press (June 1999); ISBN: 0312169337
This is an update for the famous Kim Johnson book 'The First 200 Years of Monty Python'. It's been expanded to cover everything that the cast members have done in the last 8 years. Considered by many to be the definitive source of Python information. If you're going to get one book about the gang, this is the one to get.
AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY TRIVIAL: THE MONTY PYTHON TRIVIA AND QUIZ BOOK (by Kim Johnson)
St. Martin's Press, 1991 (U.S.) ISBN 0-312-06289-3 (paperback)
Plexus Publishing, 1993 (U.K.) ISBN 0-859-65208-4 (***)
Lots of interesting trivia on the group. Kim Johnson also wrote two other Python books: 'The First 20 (200) Years of Monty Python' and 'Life Before and After Monty Python'
Monty Python Speaks (by David Morgan)
Avon Books (June 1999) ISBN: 0380804794
I'm about 3/4 of the way through with this book and it's the Python Book of the Year in my opinion. I'll have a full review posted when I'm done, but this rates as a MUST READ for any Python fan.
Story of Monty Python: A Celebration (by Richard Topping)
Virgin Pub. (June 1999) ISBN: 1852278250
Another in the long line of Monty Python anthologies either released or forthcoming. It's similar to Kim Johnson's 'The First 280 Years of Monty Python' and George Perry's 'The Life of Python'. Not bad, but I was hoping for a more interesting and original perspective.
Dark Knights and Holy Fools (by Bob McCabe)
Universe Pub. (due June 1999) ISBN: 0789302659
An in depth look at and analysis of the films of Terry Gilliam, covering his Python days to his current projects. This is due to be published soon and Gilliam is already making some public appearances to support it. I'll have more details as they become available.
The Monty Python (Non-Inflatable) TV Companion (by Jim Yoakum)
Dowling Press August 1999 ISBN: 1891847058
According to Jim's promo for the book:
'What's So Bleedin' Funny About Lord Hill?! That's the question I finally plucked up the courage to ask myself one day back in the mid-1980's. Now, I'd been a Python fan since 1974. I'd laughed along with the best of them as they reeled-off jokes about Lord Hill, Mary Whitehouse, Reginald Maudling and others - but as an American I wasn't entirely certain what was so funny about them. So I investigated, and what I found helped me understand. So I wrote it all down, along with lots of inside info on how the Python series was conceived, written and performed and the result is this lawsuit - er, BOOK!'
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