OKLAHOMA CITY — In the early 1960s, Ron Bever paid 50 cents — roughly $5.34 in today’s dollars — for an old religious book at an estate sale.
A rare books enthusiast, even Bever didn’t realize at first what a treasure he’d acquired.
“You always think about going to a book sale and finding some rare book,” Bever told me in 1994, when I interviewed him about his collection of historic, out-of-print and hard-to-find hardbacks numbering more than 15,000. “This is one time in a lifetime.”…