Watching Over the Valuables

Longtime Westport Library volunteer Dick Lowenstein today rearranges the enclosed display of “highly valued or fragile” collectibles in the McManus Room on the second day of the library’s annual summer book sale.  Lowenstein said the highest price single item purchased this weekend was a first edition, signed copy of “Ghosts Along the Mississippi,” a photography book authored by Clarence John Laughlin. The photographs capture Mississippi River relics, and was influenced by French photographer Eugene Atget. The buyer paid $275. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com