«Hikāyahā: Stories» — A Collection of Contemporary Tajik Prose (Hikoyaho). Works by Fazliddin Mohammadiev, Yusuf Akobirov, Muhyiddin Khojaev, Sariban, Kuhzod, and Sattar Tursun, 1981. In Tajik (Persian-Arabic script).

حکایهها : [مجموعۀ حکایهها] / فضلالدین محمدیف، یوسف اکبراف، محیالدین خواجهاف، سریبان، کوهزاد، ستار تورسون.
دوشنبه : نشریات «عرفان»، ۱۹۸۱. — ۲۵۶ ص.
جلد مقوایی نشریاتی با نقش و نگار رنگۀ کلاسیک فارسی (مدالیون با تصویر گیاهی در رنگهای سبز، آبی، سفید و سیاه بر زمینۀ سبز). اندازۀ ۸۴×۱۰۸/۳۲ (کوچک، تقریباً ۱۳۰×۱۶۵ میلیمتر). تیراژ ۴۰۰۰ نسخه. بها ۶۰ تین.
حالش قناعتبخش: بر جلد پشت آثار رطوبت دیده میشود (لکههای روشن بر زمینۀ سبز)، لب و گوشههای جلد ساییده، لب بلوک کمی آلوده. بلوک کتاب محکم، دوزش سخت، ورقها پاک، متن کاملاً خوانده میشود. بدون نوشتهجات و علامتها.
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Hikāyahā : [a collection of short stories] / by Fazliddin Mohammadiev, Yusuf Akobirov, Muhyiddin Khojaev, Sariban, Kuhzod, and Sattar Tursun ; [in Tajik, set in Persian-Arabic script].
Dushanbe : "Irfon" Publishing House, 1981. — 256 pp.
Publisher's pictorial paper-over-boards binding with a classical Persianate floral medallion printed in green, blue, black, and white on a green ground. Small format 84×108/32 (approximately 130×165 mm). Print run of 4,000 copies. Cover price 60 tiyin.
Condition fair: noticeable water-staining on the rear cover (irregular pale blooms across the green field), rubbing and wear to the edges and corners, light soiling to the fore-edge. The text-block remains sound, sewing firm, leaves clean and the text fully legible throughout. 
This anthology gathers short fiction by six leading representatives of late-Soviet Tajik prose — Fazliddin Mohammadiev (1928–1986), one of the most accomplished Tajik prose stylists of his generation and a recipient of the Rudaki State Prize; Yusuf Akobirov (Akbarov); Muhyiddin Khojaev, whose contributions here include the war-memorial story "Шаҳиди бисту якмиллион" ("The Twenty-One-Millionth Martyr"); the woman writer who published under the single name Sariban; Urun Kuhzod; and Sattar Tursun. What makes the present volume genuinely uncommon is its script: although by 1981 the standard orthography for Soviet Tajik had been Cyrillic for more than four decades, this Irfon edition is set in the Persian-Arabic alphabet (the Tajik-Persian variant of nastaʿlīq-style typesetting). Such "alifbo-i niākon" editions were issued in small numbers by the Dushanbe press from the late 1970s onward — partly as a gesture toward cultural-heritage continuity with classical Persian literature, partly with an eye on Persian-Arabic-script readers in Afghanistan and Iran with whom the Soviet Tajik SSR maintained literary and diplomatic exchange. Irfon (Tajik for "knowledge"; Cyrillic Ирфон, Perso-Arabic عرفان) was the principal publishing house of the Tajik SSR for original literature in Tajik; copies of its Perso-Arabic-script imprints survive in markedly smaller numbers than the parallel Cyrillic editions and rarely surface outside Central Asia. As a document of late-Soviet Tajik literary life and of the brief, politically delicate experiment with the historical Persian alphabet inside the USSR, the volume is of real interest to specialists in Persian and Central-Asian studies.