St. Martin’s, New York, 1988, 1st/1st.  ISBN 0-312-02282-4.  Hard cover, 339 pages.  Gray boards with burgundy cloth spine; silver lettering on spine a bit rubbed; a few small spots on boards.  Binding sound with headbands.  Very light edge and corner wear; spine ends bumped.  Price-clipped dust jacket has light edge wear, bit of wear at lower front corner, a bit of cover wear and age toning, and crease on rear panel.  Some soil on top page block and light age spotting on fore-edge; interior clean and unmarked.  ‘A serial murderer known only by a grotesquely apt nick-name – 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.’ (from flap folds)