NMLP P-017963 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-04

The Eye of the Needle

Ken Follett · Arbor House (New York) — first US edition; Macdonald & Jane's (London), as 'Storm Island' — true first · 1978

Book-club editions (Book-of-the-Month Club / Literary Guild) are smaller, lack the dust-jacket price, and may lack the number line. On the UK 'Storm Island' first issue, both priced and price-clipped/unpriced export dust jackets are accepted as first-state.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-017963 for "The Eye of the Needle" by Ken Follett (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-017963, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).