1st hardback edition (previously published, in the same year, in paperback by Pocket Books). 276pp. Quarter-bound in black cloth over black paper-covered boards with red titles on spine. 8vo. Boards gently rubbed and rounded at corners and spine ends. Upper text block edge lightly toned. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust jacket, gently bumped along upper edge, a little rubbed at base spine and corners. Dust jacket states book club edition on inner front flap, as called for. Dust jacket now protected in an archival quality Mylar wrapper fitted without the use of tape or adhesives. The third book in V C Andrews' Gothic horror Dollanganger series.