The Brand New Monty Python Papperbok: Graham Chapman; John Cleese; Eric Idle; Terry Jones; Michael Palin and Terry Gilliam

Compiled for Methuen in the early 1970s by the young Monty Python team at the height of their surreal powers and was published on the heels of the improbable success of the Monty Python's Flying Circus television series. A surreal delight, the Papperbok was a testing ground for ideas equally as fresh and funny as the Flying Circus material. It is full of colorful and rude illustrations by Terry Gilliam, oddball instruction sheets and booklets, schoolboy stories of adventure and mischief, misleading horoscopes, informative and thrilling features-such as Hamster: A Warning; The Python Book of Etiquette and The London Casebook of Detective Ren Descartes, zany competitions, fake editorials, spurious film reviews and some of the oddest miscellany ever pressed between the pages of a book. A must for any sincere Python fan who has ever done a Silly Walk or has practised the Art Of Not Being Seen.