Auction 27 - Books, Manuscripts and Rabbinical Letters

Chafetz Chaim Second Printing / Shmirat HaLashon First Printing – Interesting Ownership Notation

Opening: $400
Sold for: $500
Including buyer's premium
Sefer Chafetz Chaim, on laws prohibiting slander and gossip. Vilnius 1877. Second revised edition. Bound with: Sefer Shmirat HaLashon (first section) “completion of Sefer Chafetz Chaim”, words of encouragement and ethics for guarding the tongue and Torah study. Vilnius, 1876. First edition.
First books of Rabbi Yisrael Meir HaCohen of Radun, published anonymously; name of author printed on margins of title pages in Russian initials.
Leaf preceding title page contains interesting notation: “This Chafetz Chaim book belongs to my honorable father Rabbi S. Z. Liebenstein Kidan. Rosh Chodesh Adar II 1878. Yehuda Leib Liebenstein – Purchased from author Rabbi Yisrael Meir Kahana of Radun, who was here in winter of 1878 for the price of eighty Koppels”.
78 leaves; 38 leaves. 22 cm. Fair condition, wear, moth damage. Worn and damaged antique binding.
Books by the Chafetz Chaim and by Lithuanian Torah Leaders
Books by the Chafetz Chaim and by Lithuanian Torah Leaders