Description 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 few spots on boards. Binding sound with headbands; spine ends bumped. Dust jacket with price intact has light edge and spine end wear; some rubs and light impressions; verso toned with an age spot and old water mark at spine bottom. Light age spotting on bottom page block; pencil erasure at upper corner of FEP; remainder of interior clean and unmarked. Prior owner glued author’s photocopied signature on half-title page. ‘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)