It takes a keen eye to know what you're buying as a book collector, and while a first edition could be worth thousands of dollars, as the saying goes, you can't always judge a book by its cover.
Mistakes can be made when pairing books with dust jackets, potentially eroding collectors' investments, and one antiquarian book collector says it's a case of buyer beware.
"First-edition books are a great thing to get into if you want to put your money into something that you don't lose on, because there will never be more of them," says Andrea Boltresz, owner of Armchair Adventures in Robertson, New South Wales.
