GYLES BRANDRETH - The Bedside Book of Great Sexual Disasters

London England, Guild Publishing, 1986. Reprint, Binding: Decorative Boards, Michael Ffolkes Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Hardback This delicious collection of humorous, bizarre and risque anecdotes celebrates the fundamental fact of life that - where sex is concerned - banana skins are never far away. And sexual calamity is no respecter of persons: from Napoleon Bonaparte to the clergyman who expired in a brothel. Mistakes in the dark, wedding-night fiascos, marital pratfalls - the Sod's Law of sexual life is gloriously demonstrated as each disastrous true-life tale unfolds..Illustrations. Illustrated laminated boards.