Thomas Harris "Silence of the Lambs" Slipcased Signed Limited Edition No. 90 of 350 [Very Fine]

Personally signed by Thomas Harris, who defined a genre and created on of fiction’s most likeable villains.

Personally signed by Tom Bagshaw.

SIGNED LIMITED EDITION NO. 90 OF ONLY 350 PRODUCED.

Suntup Editions 2021. Thomas Harris "The Silence of the Lambs". Signed Limited Edition number 90 of only 350. The Numbered edition of 350 copies is a full Japanese cloth hand binding with a blind stamped cover. The leather spine label is foil stamped, and the endsheets are illustrated. The edition is printed offset on Mohawk Via, and is housed in a unique brocade fabric slipcase. This edition is signed by Thomas Harris and Tom Bagshaw.

The second novel by Thomas Harris to feature the character of Hannibal Lecter. It went on to win the Bram Stoker Award and is without a doubt one of the best in the genre of thriller fiction. Basis for the 1991 film, starring Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins won five Academy Awards.

"A virtual textbook on the craft of suspense" -  Washington Post

SIGNED NUMBERED EDITION

• Signed by Thomas Harris and Tom Bagshaw.
• 6” x 9” trim size.
• 378 Pages.
• Limited to 350 copies.
• Full Japanese cloth binding.
• Seven full color illustrations by Tom Bagshaw.
• Printed offset on Mohawk Via.
• Endsheets are illustrated.
• Housed in a slipcase enclosure, covered in a unique brocade fabric.
• Genuine Hagen-Renaker ceramic lamb with all pre-orders.
• Bookmark with all pre-orders.
• Very Fine with all original items 

About the Editions

The signed limited edition of The Silence of The Lambs by Thomas Harris is presented in three states: Lettered, Numbered and Artist editions. The editions measure 6” x 9” and feature seven full color illustrations by Tom Bagshaw. The text pages are set in Escrow. The Numbered and Lettered editions are signed by the author and the artist, and the Artist edition is signed by the artist.

This is the second numbered state. 

The second book in Thomas Harris’s Hannibal series, The Silence of the Lambs was first published in 1988; a sequel to the author’s 1981 novel, Red Dragon. This time, the cannibalistic forensic psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter is called upon by FBI Special Agent Clarice Starling, to use his powers of deduction to assist her in tracking down the grotesque serial killer known only as Buffalo Bill. But to enlist Dr. Lecter’s help, Starling will have to risk everything by letting him inside of her mind.

In Red Dragon, author Thomas Harris introduced us to Dr. Hannibal Lecter, and in The Silence of the Lambs he ushers Lecter to center stage, creating one of the most iconic and enduring villains the page and screen have ever known.

Ingenious and masterfully written, The Silence of the Lambs is a modern-day classic of suspense and storytelling.

Hagen-Renaker Lamb

This genuine Hagen-Renaker ceramic lamb is included free with all pre-orders of either the Lettered or Numbered editions of The Silence of the Lambs. Made by world-famous Hagen-Renaker, manufacturer of collectible ceramic animal figurines for 70 years. Each figurine ships with the accompanying Hagen-Renaker card embossed with the Suntup Editions logo.

The Silence of the Lambs

An ingenious, masterfully written novel, Thomas Harris's The Silence of the Lambs is a classic of suspense and storytelling and the basis for the Oscar award-winning horror film starring Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling and Anthony Hopkins as Dr. Hannibal Lecter.

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.

Smart and attractive, Starling is shaken to find herself in a strange, intense relationship with the acutely perceptive Lecter. His cryptic clues―about Buffalo Bill and about her―launch Clarice on a search that every reader will find startling, harrowing, and totally compelling.

Amazon Review

The Silence of the Lambs, by Thomas Harris, is even better than the successful movie. Like his earlier Red Dragon, the book takes us inside the world of professional criminal investigation. All the elements of a well-executed thriller are working here--driving suspense, compelling characters, inside information, publicity-hungry bureaucrats thwarting the search, and the clock ticking relentlessly down toward the death of another young woman. What enriches this well-told tale is the opportunity to live inside the minds of both the crime fighters and the criminals as each struggles in a prison of pain and seeks, sometimes violently, relief.
Clarice Starling, a precociously self-disciplined FBI trainee, is dispatched by her boss, Section Chief Jack Crawford, the FBI's most successful tracker of serial killers, to see whether she can learn anything useful from Dr. Hannibal Lecter. Lecter's a gifted psychopath whose nickname is "The Cannibal" because he likes to eat parts of his victims. Isolated by his crimes from all physical contact with the human race, he plays an enigmatic game of "Clue" with Starling, providing her with snippets of data that, if she is smart enough, will lead her to the criminal. Undaunted, she goes where the data takes her. As the tension mounts and the bureaucracy thwarts Starling at every turn, Crawford tells her, "Keep the information and freeze the feelings." Insulted, betrayed, and humiliated, Starling struggles to focus. If she can understand Lecter's final, ambiguous scrawl, she can find the killer. But can she figure it out in time? --Barbara Schlieper

More Reviews

“Razor-sharp entertainment, beautifully constructed and brilliantly written. Thrillers don't come any better than this.” ―Clive Barker

“A virtual textbook on the craft of suspense, a masterwork of sheer momentum that rockets seamlessly toward its climax... Harris is quite simply the best suspense novelist working today.” ―The Washington Post

“A psychological thriller so deftly woven and gripping that a reader can hardly get through one sentence fast enough to discover what's in the next.” ―Associated Press

About the author

William Thomas Harris III (born September 22, 1940) is an American writer, best known for a series of suspense novels about his most famous character, Hannibal Lecter. The majority of his works have been adapted into films and television, the most notable being The Silence of the Lambs, which became only the third film in Academy Awards history to sweep the Oscars in major categories.

Approach to writing and critical reception

Fellow novelist Stephen King remarked that if writing is sometimes tedious for other authors, to Harris it is like "writhing on the floor in agonies of frustration", because for Harris, "the very act of writing is a kind of torment". Novelist John Dunning said of Harris, "All he is is a talent of the first rank." In 2019, he elaborated on his process, as well as the difficulty, describing it as "passive [...], sometimes you really have to shove and grunt and sweat. Some days you go to your office and you're the only one who shows up, none of the characters show up, and you sit there by yourself, feeling like an idiot. And some days everybody shows up ready to work. You have to show up at your office every day. If an idea comes by, you want to be there to get it in."

About the artist

Tom Bagshaw

Tom Bagshaw works as a commercial illustrator under the moniker Mostlywanted. His talents are sought after by clients in fashion, advertising, editorial and publishing, and include Saatchi & Saatchi, Sony, the BBC, The Daily Telegraph, GQ, Scholastic and Random House.