WESTPORT — An encyclopedic range of literary offerings will be featured May 5-8 at the Westport Library’s Spring Book Sale.

The sale will take place: noon-6 p.m. Friday, May 5; 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, May 6; 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday, May 7, and 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday, May 8. There is no admission fee; the library is located at 20 Jesup Road.

Early access to the sale, via ticket, is available from 8:45 a.m.-noon, Friday, May 5. Early-access tickets, which cost $35, can be purchased online by clicking here.

Most of the sale’s remaining inventory on May 7 will be sold at half-price, and on May 8 shoppers can fill Westport Library logo bags for $8 per bag, their own equivalent-sized bags for $5 or buy individual books at half-price.

The sale will feature “gently used books for children and adults” in more than 50 categories of non-fiction and fiction, as well as noteworthy, vintage children’s and antiquarian books, according to a publicity release.

There also will music CDs, movie and television series DVDs and a limited selection of ephemera and artwork.

Among the sale highlight, according to event organizers, will be:

• The “Fiction for $1 Room” with hardcover fiction, mystery, science fiction and fantasy books, and young adult fiction, plus paperback novels, all on sale for $1 each. (Books in this room will remain priced at $1 on Sunday’s half-price day.)
  
• Books donated from the homes of NBC Sports producer Ricky Diamond; philanthropist and educator Elisabeth Luce Moore, sister of Henry Luce, who founded Time-Life, Inc., and Joseph A. Califano Jr., who served as U.S. secretary of health, education and welfare during the Carter Administration. Many books in the Califano collection have been signed and inscribed to him and or his wife Hilary by individuals notable in the fields of government, writing and entertainment. 
• An “extensive” collection of history books.
• A collection of works by or about Irish writer James Joyce.
• A nearly complete set of the 1972 Encyclopedia Britannica “Great Books” collection.

Anyone interested in volunteering to help with the event should contact Judi Lake at volunteers@westportbooksales.org.

For more information or questions, contact Westport Book Sales at 203-952-0070.