The Royal Game (Chess Story)

German-language true first is 'Schachnovelle,' printed in Buenos Aires and finished 7 December 1942 (posthumous — Zweig died in February 1942, having sent the manuscript to his agent Alfredo Cahn shortly before): the standard issue is 250 copies numbered 1–250 in wrappers under the Pigmalión imprint, alongside a deluxe issue of 50 cloth-bound copies numbered I–L (Janos Peter Kramer), identical typography and text