Seller: Serendipity Books, Subiaco, WA, Australia
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A very good copy with wear to spine ends and inscription on half-title in very good dust jacket. Pp. 341. Seller Inventory # ABE-1780237392927
Seller: Bookies books, Boyanup, WA, Australia
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Condition is very Good. General Shelf wear. Dust Jack Very Good. block of book clean. Dr H.c Coombs has been the centre of Australia Political, economic, and banking life for forty years. A senior public servant and advisor to seven prime minister - Curtin, Chifley, Menzies, Holt, Gorton, Mcmahon & Whitlam. His Influence has touched many major decision in those fields during that time. Dr Coombs left teach position in Western Australia in 1936 to join the Commonwealth Bank as a junior economist. In 1939, he was seconded to Treasury and the following year appointed of Rationing in the war time Curtain Government, the first of many top-level influential and controversial positions which would include Director-General of Post War Reconstruction, Governor of the Reserve Bank, Chancellor of the Australia National University, Chairman of the Australian Council of Arts and the Council for Aboriginal Affairs. Trail Balance is the story of those years, a unique personal record of decisions making at the top and intriguing insight into the personalities and events that have shape Australia since the war.(back of dust jacket) Ready to ship. free postage. Seller Inventory # 01841
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Seller: Wordlife books, Earlwood, NSW, Australia
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Flat SIGNED by H C COOMBS. Scarce title signed. Sunning to backstrip and light spotting to text block edge. Tight collectible condition. No age toning, d/jacket not price clipped. "Nugget" Coombs was one of the most influential figures in Australian social politics, an Aboriginal affairs advocate, also for the arts, the environment and economics, the first Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia from 1949 to 1968. 340pp. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # ABE-1663144114090
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