Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews [1979 PAPERBACK]

Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews [DOLLANGANGER #1]

FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION [1979] POCKET BOOKS

Rare vintage mass market paperback printing in very good condition.

Printing features cool metallic cover art; 

Cover shows wear / corner crease on front and a few surface nicks to back.  Binding tight.  Inside pages are like new and unread. 

Such wonderful children. Such a beautiful mother. Such a lovely house. Such endless terror!

It wasn't that she didn't love her children. She did. But there was a fortune at stake—a fortune that would assure their later happiness if she could keep the children a secret from her dying father.  So she and her mother hid her darlings away in an unused attic.  Just for a little while.

But the brutal days swelled into agonizing years. Now Cathy, Chris, and the twins wait in their cramped and helpless world, stirred by adult dreams, adult desires, served a meager sustenance by an angry, superstitious grandmother who knows that the Devil works in dark and devious ways. Sometimes he sends children to do his work—children who—one by one—must be destroyed...