A Pocketful of Python Picked by Terry Jones

Jones, Terry (editor)

ISBN 10: 0413732908 / ISBN 13: 9780413732903

Published by Methuen, London, 1999

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12mo, 64 pp., Preface by Terry Gilliam.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Pocketful of Python Picked by Terry Jones
• Publisher: Methuen, London
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0413732908
• ISBN 13: 9780413732903
• Binding: hardcover
• Illustrator: Profusely illustrated
• Edition: 1st.
• Condition: Fine copy in fine dust jacket
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Humor

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Synopsis

In this first volume, Terry Jones picks some of his prized bits from across the whole range of Python books, scripts and films.

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a page for those who like figures of speech > This is a page specially written for people who like figures of > speech, for > the not a few fans of litotes and those with no small interest in > meiosis, > for the infinite millions of hyperbole-lovers, for those fond of > hypallage > and the epithet1s golden transfer, for those who fall willingly into > the > arms of the metaphor, those who give up the ghost, bury their heads in > the > sand and ride roughshod over the mixed metaphor, and even those of > hyperbaton the friends.