The Bridal Canopy (Hakhnasat Kallah / הכנסת כלה)

The true first edition is the 1931 Hebrew "Hakhnasat Kallah," Schocken Verlag, Berlin, published within Agnon's collected works "Kol Sipurav shel Shmuel Yosef Agnon" (Berlin Schocken; Britannica gives vols. 1-6, 1931-35; other sources describe the 1931 set as four volumes) — the state serious Agnon/Hebraica collectors seek. The first ENGLISH-language edition is "The Bridal Canopy," translated by Israel Meir (I.M.) Lask, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1937 — the first Agnon novel translated into English (dealer copies confirm brown cloth; some records mis-state the city as "N.J."). A reset Jerusalem/Tel Aviv Schocken collected edition of the 1950s-the printed price carries Hakhnasat Kallah again in a later text state — not the first — as does Schocken New York's 1967 English reissue of the Lask translation.