Harris, Thomas

The Silence of the Lambs

ISBN: 0312022824
New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1988. First Printing. Hardcover. "The time is now. A serial murderer known only by a grotesquely apt nickname- Buffalo Bill- is stalking particular women. He has a purpose, but no one can fathom it, for the bodies are discovered in different states. Clarice Starling, a young trainee at the F.B.I. Academy, is surprised to be summoned by Jack Crawford, Chief of the Bureau's Behavioral Science section. Her assignment: to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist and grisly killer now kept under close watch in the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Lecter's insight into the minds of murderers could help track and capture Buffalo Bill...His cryptic clues...about Buffalo Bill and about her- launch Clarice on a search that every reader will find startling, harrowing, and totally compelling." (from front & back flaps). The now-classic novel by Thomas Harris that was the basis for the acclaimed film (1991), where Anthony Hopkins' performance as the notorious Dr. Hannibal Lecter immortalized this character into our collective popular consciousness (fava beans & a nice little chianti with your main course, anyone?). Hardcover in unclipped, first issue dust-jacket: First Edition, as stated on copyright page, first printing as indicated by number sequence thereon. In strong fine condition with only minute-to-moderate shelf-wear, rubbing to front, back covers & some light, nonuniform age-toning/yellowing to fine-edge of front cover, otherwise clean. Dust-jacket in strong near fine condition with only minute-to-moderate shelf-wear, rubbing to front, back covers & spine-edge of same; a few examples of light bumping, horizontal creasing-crinkling present at same (inc. at bottommost fine-edge of spine-edge), else satisfactorily clean. Fine / Near Fine. [Item #5340]

Price: $200.00