The Real Gold: A History of Gold Estates of Australia Ltd and Gold Estates of Australia (1903) Ltd by Michael Gregg and Juliet Ludbrook

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Secondhand. Very good to near fince condition. Very minor wear to book corners and edges. Dust jacket has some light creasing at edges and spine. Interior and binding are excellent.

It is rare for a company to exist for more than 100 years, but even more when it is a property developer centred in the 'boom and bust' Australian commodities capital, Perth.

With its London-based shareholders and Board, Gold Estates, in its early years, invested in a variety of businesses - from gold mining in Kalgoorlie and Menzies to copper mines in Russia and dredging in Africa -- but it was property development that sustained it for more than a century.

This relatively modest-sized company has been developing parts of many of Perth's well-known suburbs. Maylands and Bayswater, Scarborough and Bentley, Yokine and Karrinyup, Bicton and Inglewood, Thomsons Lake, and the aptly named Success.

For Gold Estates to survive the "busts" and not be seduced by the "booms", like so many of its peers, defines success in this cyclical industry. Geoff Anderson Chairman Gold Estates Holdings Pty Ltd (back cover)