Arthur William Coles: With Zeal and Integrity
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: limited ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: No. 209 of 1500 copies. From the library of Lilian Coles. Name penned on fep.
A privately published Australian biography produced in a limited edition of 1,500 copies, "With Zeal and Integrity" commemorates the remarkable life of Sir Arthur William Coles, tracing his trajectory from the family's revolutionary "nothing over 1/-" variety stores in Collingwood to his role as Managing Director of G.J. Coles and Co., his three terms as Lord Mayor of Melbourne, his service at Gallipoli and on the Western Front, his pivotal years in Federal Parliament as an Independent who held the balance of power and crossed the floor in 1941 to install John Curtin as Prime Minister, and his subsequent public service chairing the Commonwealth Rationing Commission, the War Damage Commission, the Australian National Airlines Commission, and the Melbourne Olympic Games Committee, capturing both the outstanding achievements and the personal qualities of one of the most consequential Australians of the twentieth century.
Author: Arranged and Edited by Walter Ives
Format: Hardback
Published: 1982, Privately published
Genre: Biography
Edition: limited ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: No. 209 of 1500 copies. From the library of Lilian Coles. Name penned on fep.
A privately published Australian biography produced in a limited edition of 1,500 copies, "With Zeal and Integrity" commemorates the remarkable life of Sir Arthur William Coles, tracing his trajectory from the family's revolutionary "nothing over 1/-" variety stores in Collingwood to his role as Managing Director of G.J. Coles and Co., his three terms as Lord Mayor of Melbourne, his service at Gallipoli and on the Western Front, his pivotal years in Federal Parliament as an Independent who held the balance of power and crossed the floor in 1941 to install John Curtin as Prime Minister, and his subsequent public service chairing the Commonwealth Rationing Commission, the War Damage Commission, the Australian National Airlines Commission, and the Melbourne Olympic Games Committee, capturing both the outstanding achievements and the personal qualities of one of the most consequential Australians of the twentieth century.