March Hastings - Pillow Tramp / G.H. Smith - Lash of Desire
Dollar Double Books 950, 1962
Cover Artist: Robert Bonfils

The term tête-bêche is used to refer to a single volume in which two texts are bound together, with one text rotated 180° relative to the other, such that when one text runs head-to-tail, the other runs tail-to-head. Etymology: from French meaning "head-to-toe", literally referring to a type of bed.
Books bound in this way have no back cover, but instead have two front covers and a single spine with two titles. When a reader reaches the end of the text of one of the works, the next page is the (upside-down) last page of the other work.
The format became widely known in the 1950s, when Ace Books began to publish its Ace Doubles. This was a line of tête-bêche format paperbacks that ran from 1952 until the early 1970s. The Ace Doubles binding was considered innovative, if somewhat gimmicky, at the time; the 18 October 1952 issue of Publishers Weekly describes it as a "trick format".

The tête-bêche format has been used for devotional books since the nineteenth century, and possibly earlier.

Perhaps that's why Dollar Double sarcastically chose that format for its first sleazy publication.

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March Hastings - Pillow Tramp
(Original Title: Demands of the Flesh)
Dollar Double 950, 1962
Cover Artist: Robert Bonfils

"People who thought they knew her would be SHOCKED to know..."

March Hastings is a pseudonym of Sally Singer

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G.H. Smith - Lash of Desire
(Original Title: The Whip of Passion)
Dollar Double 950, 1962
Cover Artist: Robert Bonfils

"... she was a member of the twilight sorority, with dusky skin and luscious curves..."

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Sloane Britain - Strumpets' Jungle
(Original Title: First Person - Third Sex)
Dollar Double 951, 1962
Cover Artist: Robert Bonfils

"The world of the 3rd sex... that land of strange loves and rapacious passions!"

Sloane Britain was a pseudonym of Elaine Williams.

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James Rubel - Any Man's Playmate
(Original Title: Any Two Can Play)
Dollar Double 951, 1962
Cover Artist: Robert Bonfils

"The most delightfully shocking story you've ever read!"

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