Python Years Diaries 1969 1979 by Michael Palin (163 results)

Condition: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Condition: Very Good. 1749119112. 6/5/2025 10:25:12 AM.

Paperback. Condition: Used; Very Good. Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. Though second-hand, the book is still in very good shape. Minimal signs of usage may include very minor creasing on the cover or on the spine. Damaged cover. The cover of is slightly damaged for instance a torn or bent corner.

Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. Minor surface scratches to the disc.

Condition: Very Good. 1 Edition. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Condition: Very Good. 1st. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Please note minor rip to cover. Some discolour to pages. Same / next day dispatch (Monday - Friday),

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First UK edition-second printing. Mint condition.Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2006. First UK edition-second printing(3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2).Tan hardback(silver lettering to the spine) with Dj(small creases, nicks & scratch on the Dj cover),both in mint condition.Illustrated with colour, b/w photos.The book is new with a pencil mark impression on the edge of the first blank page of the book.664pp including List of illustrations, index.Price un-clipped.First edition.Heavy book. This is another paragraph Product Description:Michael Palin has kept a diary since newly married in the late 1960s, when he was beginning to make a name for himself as a TV scriptwriter (for the Two Ronnies, David Frost etc). Monty Python was just around the corner. This first volume of his diaries reveals how Python emerged and triumphed, how he, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, the two Terrys - Jones and Gilliam - and Eric Idle, came together and changed the face of British comedy. But this is but only part of Palin's story. Here is his growing family, his home in a north London Victorian terrace, which grows as he buys the house next door and then a second at the bottom of the garden; here, too, is his solo effort - as an actor, in Three Men in a Boat, his writing endeavours (often in partnership with Terry Jones) that produces Ripping Yarns and even a pantomime. Meanwhile Monty Python refuses to go away: the hugely successful movies that follow the TV (his account of the making of both The Holy Grail and the Life of Brian movies are pager-turners), the at times extraordinary goings on of the many powerful personalities who coalesced to form the Python team, the fight to prevent a American TV network from bleeping out the best jokes on US trasmission, and much more - all this makes perceptive, funny and rivetting reading.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. pp XXII, 650. 3rd printing. DJ complete, shows slight use.

Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.

Hard Cover. Condition: F-. Dust Jacket Condition: F. First Edition. F-/F. 8vo. original brown boards (tanning to paperstock) in dustwrapper; pp. xxii, 650, with numerous illustrations. Heavy item (1.5 kg), additional postage may be required for international delivery. A near fine copy.

Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG): all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

Very good+ in dust jacket, light edgewear.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing with full number line. A fine copy in a near fine mylar protected DJ that has some light edge wear. See my photos of the book you will receive, not stock photos. More available upon request. This book is in my possession and will be packed in bubble wrap and shipped in a cardboard box. USPS tracking provided. #168.

Condition: Good. fat 8vo. Softcover. 721pp. Good. Index. Illustrated with photographs. Enjoying an unlikely cult status early on, the Pythons then proceeded to tour the USA and Canada. As their popularity grew, so Palin relates how the group went their separate ways, later to re-form for stage shows and the celebrated films THE HOLY GRAIL and LIFE OF BRIAN. Living through the three-day week and the miners strike, and all the trials of a peripatetic life are also essential ingredients of these perceptive and funny diaries.

Hardcover. First U.S. edition. Michael Palin has kept a diary since newly married in the late 1960s, when he was beginning to make a name for himself as a TV scriptwriter (for 'The Two Ronnies, David Frost, etc). Monty Python was just around the corner. This volume of his diaries reveals how Python emerged and triumphed, how he, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, the two Terrys--Jones and Gilliam--and Eric Idle came together and changed the face of British comedy. 650pp, illustrated from photographs, with index. A near fine copy in a near fine clean dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. This 2007 Thomas Dunne/St. Martin's Press book is ***SIGNED & INSCRIBED*** by Michael Palin. Enclosed with the book is a charming page that documents when the author signed the book: Occurring on September 8, 2007 at the Oxonian Society Annual Black Tie Gala. It also includes the menu for the night and the order of presentations and addresses. This is a must for a true Python fan. Condition: NearFine/NearFine. Signed by Author. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition; First Printing. First American edition. SIGNED by Michael Palin on title page. Fine in fine dust jacket. (LR).

1st edition of each volume. Hardcover. The boards, endpapers and pages of each voume are pristine. The dustjacket of each voume is in mint condition, no wear, not price-clipped. Signed by the author on the title page of each of the four volumes. In all, a faultless set of Sir Michael Palin's superb diaries, published in 2006, 2009, 2014 and 2024, respectively. 'Keeping a diary', he writes, 'means that all that seeing and hearing, loving and laughter, excitement and embarrassment, gladness and gloom that go to make up a life are not forgotten. A diary blows away the mists of time, and offers your life back to you.' In an interview with the author in 2012, Robert Chalmers said that Palin's diaries were distinguished by a 'gentle curiosity' and 'by an acute attention to detail and an unusual determination to get things right'. He added that 'If England ever requires one figure to rally its citizens, that man might be Michael Palin'. Sir Michael Palin's diaries are amongst the most enjoyable and entertaining such offerings for many years and, at over 2,000 pages, amongst the longest such works in the English language. Very scarce as a signed set. Very heavy, too, so please ask about shipping costs.