The Blind Owl

Original language Persian: Bombay, 1937 (c. 50 copies) is the true first; the Tehran 1941 serialization/book is the first Iranian appearance. First English: 1957, D.P. Costello, issued the same year by John Calder (London) and Grove Press (New York). Copyright was held by John Calder (Publishers) Ltd., which points to London as the originating publisher, but the exact issue precedence between the simultaneous Calder and Grove printings is not firmly documented — both 1957 editions are collected.