Visit our new Westport Book Shop
We look forward to welcoming you at
our used book shop, located at
23 Jesup Road, Westport CT
(right across Jesup Green from the Westport Library)
Hours: Tuesdays through Saturdays 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Sundays Noon to 5 p.m.
Closed Mondays
Telephone: 203-349-5141
Now you can shop your favorite book sale, and benefit the Westport Library, all year 'round !
Westport Book Shop is Westport, Connecticut's only non-profit, year-round resource for high quality gently used and antiquarian books, vintage vinyl, and more. Our Book Shop has more than 5,000 books in over 30 categories, plus a broad selection of vintage vinyl records, audio books, CDs, and DVDs.
The young children's area
The view from the book shop,
to the Westport Library
Book Categories available at the Book Shop include:
Art Maker and Hobbies
Biographies Math
Business Music
Children’s — Preschool, Gradeschool, Mysteries
Middleschool and Young Adults Performing Arts
Classics and Literature Philosophy
Cookbooks Photography
Diet and Health Poetry
Fiction Religion
Foreign Language Science
Game & Puzzle Books & Things to Do Science Fiction & Fantasy
Gardening Social Science
Small Gift Books Softcovered Fiction
American History & Politics Special and Antiquarian Books
World History Sports, and Boating
Military History Transportation
Home Decor Travel
Large Print Westport, NY + New England
The vintage vinyl collection
Please note: In the interest of the health and well being of our guests (especially our youngest visitors), our volunteers, and our staff, we continue to require that all staff, volunteers and patrons wear face masks covering their nose and mouth at all times while inside the book shop.
Hand sanitizer is available for your use upon entry into the shop, and at the cashier station.
Social distancing is also recommended.
The Drew Friedman Art Place at the Westport Book Shop
Westport Book Shop is partnering with the Drew Friedman Community Arts Center to feature different local artists' work at the Book Shop every month.
Our featured artist for the month of December 2021 is Fruma Markowitz
Photographer Fruma Markowitz is exhibiting part of an ongoing project entitled "Sara's Trousseau", with an installation of nine Cyanotype prints and collages using photographic images she made of non-matching teacups she inherited from her mother, together with imprints of crocheted and embroidered linens she's found at flea markets and tag sales.
Cyanotype is an historical photographic process, invented in 1842, where a light-sensitive photographic emulsion applied to paper turns a brilliant Prussian blue when exposed to a UV light source, such as the sun. Each print, like the teacups, is unique. Some have also been embellished with gold ink, or toned with . . . tea!
Fruma says her photography functions as a visual diary, and she makes photographic images every day. "I try to bring focus to everyday things that other people might overlook, but that are significant, troubling or wonderful to me," she said. Family life, womanhood, and urban and natural environments are where she most often draws inspiration for making images.
Fruma earned a BFA in photography at the Bezalel Academy of Art & Design in Jerusalem, and a Masters in Interactive Technology at New York University. She is a member of The Artists Collective of Westport, The Silvermine Guild, the Rowayton Arts Center, the Ridgefield Guild of Artists, and The Creative Center in NYC.
Fruma's artwork will be on exhibit at the Westport Book Shop through December 31, 2021.
Earlier art exhibitors at the Book Shop include Nina Bentley, Norm Siegel, Katherine Ross, Miggs Burroughs, Holly Hawthorn, Diane Pollack, Joanie Landau, student artists from CLASP Homes' art program, Susan Fehlinger, and Leonor Dao Turut. Click here for information about their exhibits.
Book Donations
We welcome, and are very grateful for, your donation of gently used books, vinyl records and other media. Your donations help our Book Shop thrive!
Donations should be brought to the big grey Book Donation Center in the Westport Library's Upper Parking Lot. For information about when and how to donate your used books, vinyl records and other media, and for a list of the materials that we do, and do not, accept for donation, please click here.
Westport Book Sale is grateful to the following Founding Donors, whose financial support and passion for the Westport community have made the Westport Book Shop possible:
The Drew Friedman Community Arts Center, Inc.
Eileen Lavigne Flug
Dan Levinson
Jeffrey Mayer and Nancy Diamond
Jocelyn and Walter Barandiaran
Linda Monteiro-Hopper and Scott Hopper
Robin and Brad Berggren
Rebecca L. Ciota
The Kail Family
The Michael M. Wiseman and Helen A. Garten Charitable Foundation
Abilis Community Foundation
The STAR Foundation, Inc.
The Betty R. and Ralph Sheffer Foundation
Craig Rebecca Schiavone
Westport Sunrise Rotary
Rita Allen Foundation
Berchem Moses PC
Westport Book Shop is also grateful to the local law firm Verrill, which donated nearly all of the store's display bookcases.