![]() 2 spot in its first appearance on the mass-market paperback best seller list. ''If There Be Thorns'' had a first printing of 2.5 million in paperback, and this week takes the No. ![]() This sort of packaging has helped to catapult Virginia Cleo Andrews, author of scary novels, from obscurity only 18 months ago to enormous success, first with ''Flowers in the Attic,'' then with ''Petals on the Wind.'' Together, they sold nearly seven million copies in original paperback editions. The cover's two-step effect is the chilling and hypnotic work of Pocket Books's art director Milton Charles and his illustrator, Gillian Hills. It is the artistic introduction to what promises to be the hottest, biggest selling novel of the summer of 1981. The cover pops open to show the whole picture, almost Dali-like in its technique: The child sits on the lap of a veiled woman, a sinister butler stands behind them and a pale nimbus is over all. And then the title, ''If There Be Thorns,'' by V.C. ''This is the novel millions have been waiting for,'' says the come-on below. ![]() ![]() The face of a frightened child, surrounded by a swirl of thorns, gazes from a cutout on the book's cover. ![]()
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