Seven Minutes
2009-04-22 13:28:38.700037+00 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
This one's for Debra Hyde: The Dirty Secret of a Legendary Rare Book. The Seven Minutes by Irving Wallace was published in 1969, a novel about an obscenity trial concerning a fictitious book by a fictitious author. Another publisher got advance notice of this, and published said fictitious book.
Girodias was ordered to destroy all 150,000 copies of the book's print run. In practical terms this was done by tearing off the front covers to provide proof and pulping the now defaced books.
Thus this book, with it's great backstory, has become one of the most rare and desirable books in all of erotic literature.