Flowers in the Attic

E-018: Simon & Schuster. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1980. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Simon and Schuster, New York. 1979. 412 pgs. First edition/First printing (full numberline present). DJ has shelfwear present (previous owner taped down to the edges of the flaps and the exremities of the DJ). Remainder mark present to the top edge of the text block. Previous owner's bookplate present to the front pastedown. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid. At the top of the stairs there are four secrets hidden - blond, innocent, and fighting for their lives....They were a perfect and beautiful family - until a heartbreaking tragedy shattered their happiness. Now, for the sake of an inheritance that will ensure their future, the children must be hidden away out of sight, as if they never existed. They are kept in the attic of their grandmother’s labyrinthine mansion, isolated and alone. As the visits from their seemingly unconcerned mother slowly dwindle, the four children grow ever closer and depend upon one another to survive both this cramped world and their cruel grandmother. A suspenseful and thrilling tale of family, greed, murder, and forbidden love, Flowers in the Attic is the unputdownable first novel of the epic Dollanganger family saga. The Dollanganger series includes: Flowers in the Attic, Petals in the Wind, If There Be Thorns, Seeds of Yesterday, Garden of Shadows, Beneath the Attic, and Out of the Attic. E-018; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 412 pages .