The Silence of the Lambs
Price: $250.00
Hard Cover. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988. First Edition. Very Good / Dust Jacket Included.
First edition, first printing. Publisher's plum cloth-backed lavender boards, titles in silver foil to spine; original black dust jacket, with front panel illustration by Frank Morris, lettered in white and purple, and photograph of author by Peter Hallock to rear panel. Very good or better book, with a touch of bumping to bottom corners, some toning to extremities, faint offsetting to endpapers, along with some soiling to front free endpaper, and some creasing to lower edge of first few pages of text; near fine unclipped dust jacket, with some wear to corners and wrinkling to head of spine, and light toning to extremities and spine. Overall, a sharp copy of Harris' classic work. In The Silence of the Lambs, a serial killer, nicknamed Buffalo Bill, is at large. In an attempt to gain information about Buffalo Bill and his potential next victims, FBI trainee Clarice Starling is sent to visit the brilliant psychologist and cannibalistic murderer, Hannibal Lecter, at a mental institution where he is currently serving multiple life sentences. What ensues is an incredible and horrific game of cat and mouse, as Clarice tries to find the killer, while protecting herself from Lecter's penetrating and evil mind. The Silence of the Lambs, written by Thomas Harris and a sequel to Red Dragon, is the second book to feature the criminal mastermind Hannibal Lecter. Famed author David Foster Wallace included both The Silence of the Lambs and Red Dragon on a list of his 10 favorite books. Lecter is routinely listed as one of the greatest fictional villains in history. In 1991, The Silence of the Lambs was adapted into a film starring Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins, which won five Academy Awards and was the first and only horror film to win Best Picture. Item #THH005
