Caviar For Breakfast - a Russian Diary

Melbourne: Quartet Books, 1974. Pp. xii+196, 8 plates, 2 full page maps, glossary, index demy 8vo; red boards, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, faintly browned; edges of leaves lightly foxed; Quartet Books, Melbourne, 1979. First edition. *Based on the author's diary. 'Betty Roland was a Melbourne girl who ran away to Moscow with her Communist lover, Guido Baracchi,… Read more about this item

Quartet Books, 1979. Tomato red hardcover with gold gilt writing on spine. Bottom foredge has 2 remainder marks - one pink and one brown. Other than that, pristine condtion. Dust jacket has a tan background and is designed to look like a sheet of note paper. A diagram of the churches in St Petersburg , with blue sky underneath, and… Read more about this item

Melbourne: Quartet Books, 1979. 1st edition. As New. octavo. dust jacket 196pp., b/w plates, maps, glossary, index, A Russian diary by Betty Roland, a Melbourne girl who ran away to Moscow with her Communist lover Guido Baracchi in 1933

New York: Collins, 1989. revised edition. As New. octavo. stiff wrappers 176pp., glossary, Updated account of the authorÕs visit & eventual 12 months stay in Moscow in 1933

Imprint for Collins, Sydney 1989. 19.5 x 13.0cms, 180pp, b/w illusts, very good paperback & cover Roland lived in Moscow with Guido Baracchi, her lover, and Katharine Susannah Prichard, the Australian novelist. They experienced 'the false dawn of Stalin's new revolution' until Stalin closed the country to the West. This is Volume 2 of Roland's memoirs, the… Read more about this item