The L.A. Times Festival of Books yielded a bonanza for the woman who came to the Southern California Chapter of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America’s Rare Book Round-Up booth for a free appraisal.A book the woman bought for a dollar at a garage sale was worth $6,000. Suffice it to say, she plotzed when informed.A metaphysical ambulance is routinely parked nearby to handle such situations. Treated for acute swoon, she recovered fully and danced a jig all the way home.The volume she presented for appraisal was A Western Trip by Carl E. Schmidt (1904). A lavishly produced book bound...
