Westport Friends Meeting

43rd Annual Used Book Sale!

43rd Annual Used Book Sale!
Saturday, July 17, 2004
11 am to dusk
(and continuing through the week)

It will happen again on July 17, 2004: The 43rd Annual Westport Quaker Meeting Used Book Sale! The Book Sale serves as the main fundraising event for our Meeting, which began meeting in Westport in 1699.

Come early, have fun! (Click picture to enlarge.)

Table after table of books will be arrayed under a large tent and in the buildings on the grounds of our 190 year-old Quaker Meetinghouse. Last year over 19,000 books across dozens of categories were sorted over the past year. Categories range from local history to travel, from humor to religion and philosophy, from cookbooks to large format art books—and even sci-fi and harlequin romances!

Books are priced individually, from 6-for-a-dollar paperbacks to hardbound first editions and other gems separated out on our “Better Books” table. A number of families have donated entire libraries—so you never know what will turn up on our Better Books table!

Did we tell you about the first edition of Moby Dick that found its way onto our tables in the early years of the Book Sale? That’s a dramatic example, but there have been quite a number of other wonderful finds over our past four decades of bookselling.

The Book Sale opens at 11:00. Traditionally, an opening whistle starts people streaming into the tent and meetinghouse in search of that special book—and they often emerge with more than one unexpected diamond in the rough.

Light lunch and snacks will be available to sustain the browsers. The opening day of the sale runs until dusk on Saturday, and the sale continues daily for about two weeks thereafter.

In its more than 40 years, the Book Sale has usually enjoyed fair weather, but it has gone on despite rain, heat, and even Hurricane Beulah. And so it will go on next month!

For more information:

Jean Kennison
508-636-8250

Eliza & Mark Miley
508-636-4963