The Glass Bead Game

The German Swiss first (Fretz & Wasmuth, 1943) is the true first. CENSUS CORRECTION: the first edition in English is NOT the New York Holt issue — it is the London edition, Aldus Publications Ltd (Francis Aldor), 1949, in Mervyn Savill's translation under the trap title 'Magister Ludi.' The first American edition (Henry Holt, 1949) was made up from imported British sheets and its copyright page reads 'Copyright 1949 by Francis Aldor, 2 Mount Row, London W.1' with the London printer's imprint. A later Richard & Clara Winston translation (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1969, foreword by Theodore Ziolkowski) restored the full text and is 'first thus' only — not the first English.