250 pages. The jacket is lightly chipped at the head of the spine, offset to the front end paper, else clean, unmarked and solid, as though unread. Balthazar is the second in Lawrence Durrell's Alexander Quartet. "The Alexandria Quartet is a tetralogy of novels by British writer Lawrence Durrell, published between 1957 and 1960. A critical and commercial success, the first three books present three perspectives on a single set of events and characters in Alexandria, Egypt, before and during the Second World War. The fourth book is set six years later." (Wikipedia)