Bert FEGG'S NaStY Book for BOYS & GIRLS - Michael Palin & Terry Jones Hb in MELB

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BERT  FEGG’S

NASTY

BOOK

For  Boys  &  Girls

by Michael Palin & Terry Jones

ISBN: none cited

Publisher: Eyre Methuen Lyd, London, UK

Published: 1974

Binding: HARDcover 62 pages

Condition: Been read carefully condition! .....  and then stored -   as illustrated!

Edition:  FIRST EDITION: 2nd printing 1974

NOTE:   All of my listings used  to contain many HUGE close-up photos embedded within my listing - however in June 2017 action taken by Photobucket, the image hosting website, has removed them all -  THIS  listing has had my photos deleted. I am happy to email any photos you request via email.

STUNNING   COLLECTABLE  HARDcover  ....

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Because you KNOW what you're getting. My close up photos are of the actual item!!

MANY HILARIOUS  PIECES ...

An UNread copy - it has been stored in a private collection all these years. It is Tight -  neat, no inscriptions within -  minimal, if any, sign of ageing the only blemish.  Appears as in my photos - this is the exact copy!!  A nicely preserved copy - superb! 

Very mild, if any, discernible shelf wear to the laminated boards, the interior is tight and clean with 62 pages, heavily illustrated in both colour and black and white. The illustrators are - Martin Honeysett, Lolly Honeysett, Frank Bellamy, Paul Buckle

COVER artist Lolly Honeysett

Published in 1974  by Eyre Methuen, London, UK - the 2nd printing also in 1974 -  it is bound in HARDcover binding, publisher's glossy pictorial boards are bright. A super copy of this scarce 40+ year old book by the Python guys. The only blemish is the teensiest, weensiest little hole on first black endpaper.

Laminated pictorial boards are in excellent, bright, glossy condition.  (Stored with 2017!)

Measures 17 x 28cms  or 7ins  X  10ins.

**  According to Wikipedia …. 

The original UK edition also included references to a faux contest whereby readers were invited to look for a "deliferate mistale" (sic) located "somewhat" in the book.  THIS copy has that!

The book climaxes with a two-page, gory illustration of Bert Fegg chopping open a monster with an axe (presented in the style of Terry Gilliam’s animations), followed by profuse apologies by the book's publishers and a final scrawled rant by Fegg.

SYNOPSIS

An illustrated compendium of humorous facts such as the recipe for oxygen tart and an explanation of how man evolved from small rocks. 

Very much in the mould of Monty Python's Book, the book is illustrated throughout by the inimitable Terry Gillingham. 

Bert Fegg's Nasty Book for Boys And Girls is a humorous book first published by Methuen in 1974 which purports to have been written by a psychopathic character, Dr. Fegg.    In fact, the book is the work of Terry Jones and Michael Palin, who adapted a range of material from scripts written for the television comedy series, Monty Python’s Flying Circus.   Some material was later used in Palin's 1977 TV series, Ripping Yarns. The first edition was sold bearing a sticker on the front cover which read "A Monty Python Educational Product".

The book satirises elements of educational text books, as well as annuals, which were popular hardcover publications for children featuring short stories, comic strips, and games, often based upon television series and films of the day.

About the Author

Terence Graham Parry Jones is a Welsh comedian, screenwriter and actor, film director, children's author, popular historian, political commentator and TV documentary host. He is best known as a member of the Monty Python comedy team.

Very,  very  entertaining  read!

Reviews

5 STARS   ……   I bought a copy of this marvelous book when I was a first-year undergraduate, and it became a favorite in my circle of friends. We would frequently quote from it. There is a decent article in Wikipedia. Here are the first two paragraphs:

Bert Fegg's Nasty Book For Boys And Girls is a humorous book first published by Methuen in 1974 which purports to have been written by a psychopathic character, Dr. Fegg. In fact, the book is the work of Terry Jones and Michael Palin, who adapted a range of material from scripts written for the television comedy series, Monty Python's Flying Circus. Some material was later used in Palin's 1977 TV series, Ripping Yarns. The first edition was sold bearing a sticker on the front cover which read "A Monty Python Educational Product".

The book may be seen as a satire of children's education literature; whether it is actually written for children or is intended as a parody aimed at adults is open to interpretation. It satirises elements of educational text books, as well as annuals, which were popular hardcover publications for children featuring short stories, comic strips, and games, often based upon television series and films of the day.

It had some rather fine bad poems, which I have been attempting to reconstruct. Here is what I can recall of Depravo the Rat, who, I now learn, is one of the two official mascots of Grizedale College, Lancaster. Clearly more famous than I'd thought, which makes it all the more mysterious that the poem is not in fact easy to locate:

... I like being very rude

Eating half-digested food

And seeing ladies in the nude.

Even nasty little frogs when little girls look in their minces

Tend to go all soppy and turn into handsome princes

But there's no chance of that with Depravo the Rat

I'm a loose-living, dirty little scab

So stay away do-gooders, don't do being nice to me

Or I'll make your life real hell

I'll slit your face I'll wet your bed I'll wrap your nostrils round your head

I'm Depravo, Depravo the Rat

The filthiest creature that could be!

Well, I'm glad to see that other students loved him too. And here's about half of A Garden is Rather Like a Poem, which I am also surprised not to find at once on Google:

(The first verse has explained that gardens and poems have a lot in common)

Instead of metre, there's something neater, i.e. rows of pretty things!

Instead of rhyme, there's parsley and thyme

And the sound of the lawn-edger sings

My garden has a compost-heap, and herbaceous borders as well

And where a poem has a thought

My garden has a smell

But how did it start and end? If someone can enlighten me, I'll be pathetically grateful.

HILARIOUS…. Undoubtedly the most important document ever written in English. 

SICK, WEIRD, Warped …. I read this back it when it was Dr. Fegg's Nasty Book of Knowledge. It is a sick, weird book of funny psychopathological ramblings about rats and the Bournemouth killings. There are songs, too, I think. It's the perfect gift for that maladapted teenaged relative with a crepuscular sense of humor.

Disgusting and hilarious. ….  One of the few comedy books that I loved and quoted as a kid that I still love and quote (though nobody gets the references) as an adult. A necessity for Monty Python fans. 

Monty Python for Boys  ….  From the Monty Python boys, this children's annual/handbook is the usual collection of absurdities and silliness. My 10 year old son loved it, albeit that I had to explain some of the humour.

Required reading for all children between the ages of 5 – 95! ….  40 some years ago I bought 5 copies of this book and gave one to my children and the others to deserving children. Just recently my son gave his copy to his daughters. I was encouraged to find at least one more for another poor child , who was, going to grow up without the knowledge and wisdom of darling uncle Bert.

Feggin Marvellous  ….  Bert Fegg (the celebrated author of this book) is a genius.

Anyone who assembles such a marvel as the collection of information about the very abstract animals in the wonderful world of nature AS WELL AS describing the attempt to cross the Andes by Frog (later used by the copy-cat Michael Palin as a basis for an item in his amusing series Ripping Yarns) is clearly a genius.

And these are only two articles in the book.

There are many, many more delights inside the book (but NOT if you are of a nervous disposition - you have been warned dear reader) including a great Xmas pantomime.

THIS IS A GREAT BOOK and worth twice whatever you pay for it.

I am not tied up by Doctor Fegg.

NASTY BOOK STOLEN  ……   I have never had another book STOLEN! This is obviously the only one that was worth stealing in my collection. I was very, very angy, and since I have been interested in setting up a trust fund to supply all children with a copy of this book, which is the way things should be. Also, I am going to buy another copy, and if anyone steals it I will know who it was because I am going to impregnate the useless page (the one that all non-weedy people rip out in front of their friends) with a deadly poison!!! 

FEGG’S BOOK …  Dr. Fegg's book is horrible and full of things like lighter than air otters, the Montana Boiling Tiger and pictures of monsters' entrails. The fall of Roman Imperialism is well described. Ideal for children of all ages, especially those in their late forties.

baby Boomers will love it …  Another must have for the Monty Python fan, this book from Michael Palin and Terry Jones has elements that are either inspired by or filtered through their previous work with Python or in Ripping Yarns. Very funny and although nominally a young adults read it is probably more suited for their parents. 

An old classic …. Here's an old classic from my high school and college days. Dr Fegg continues to influence my life, but mostly in terms of wondering exactly where Bournemouth is and wanting to call pianos "painos". Not to mention an appreciation for a good looking fish.

Marvellous Reading!

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