NMLP P-045586 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

The Blind Owl

Sadegh Hedayat · Self-published (mimeograph/duplicated, c. 50 copies), Bombay · 1937

The Persian true first, Buf-e kur, was produced by Hedayat himself in Bombay in 1937 in about fifty duplicated copies reproduced from his own handwriting by mimeograph stencil, each marked as not for sale or publication in Iran and largely handed to friends abroad — an extreme rarity

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-045586 for "The Blind Owl" by Sadegh Hedayat (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-045586, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).