Auction 85 - Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art

Shemirat HaLashon – First Edition – Vilna 1876 – Rare Printed Front Wrapper

Opening: $500
Sold for: $1,500
Including buyer's premium

Shemirat HaLashon (Part I), complement to the book Chafetz Chaim, words of inspiration and ethics on guarding one's tongue and Torah study. Vilna, 1876. First edition.
One of the first books by R. Yisrael Meir HaKohen of Radin, the Chafetz Chaim, published anonymously (the author's name was printed in Russian at the foot of the title pages).
[1] printed front wrapper, 76 pp. 22 cm. Good condition. Stains and wear. Original binding with leather spine, damaged.
The front wrapper is rare; not listed in the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book.


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