New York: Fred Jordan Books/Grosset & Dunlap, 1979. First Fred Jordan Books/Grosset & Dunlap [Stated]. First Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. The format is approximately 11.25 inches by 14 inches. 64 pages plus covers for Life of Brian; Scraobook is unpaginated. Illustrations (many in color). Cover has wear, soiling, and creases. Spine has tears and chips. The story of Brian, who was born 1,979 years ago in Judea next door to another nativity scene of considerably greater impact on mankind, maintains the Monty Python tradition of vulgarity and exuberant zaniness. Bound with MontyPythonScrapbook with the same ISBN. Bound Together with Scrapbook upside down when compared with The Life of Brian. Spin-offs include a script-book The Life of Brian of Nazareth, which was printed back-to-back with MONTYPYTHONSCRAPBOOK as a single book. The printing of this book also caused problems, due to rarely used laws in the United Kingdom against blasphemy, dictating what can and cannot be written about religion. The publisher refused to print both halves of the book, and original prints were by two companies. Julian Doyle, the film's editor, wrote The Life of Brian/Jesus, a book which not only describes the filmmaking and editing process but argues that it is the most accurate Biblical film ever made. In October 2008, a memoir by Kim "Howard" Johnson titled Monty Python's Tunisian Holiday: My Life with Brian was released. Johnson became friendly with the Pythons during the filming of Life of Brian and the book is based on his notes and memories of the behind-the-scenes filming and make-up. More