316 pages. The jacket is price clipped and has a library label on the tail of the spine. The book once belonged to the Shire of Broadford and its stamp is on the head tail and fore-edge as well as on the title page; the copyright page has a hand written accession number. Overall a very nice copy, clean, unmarked and solid.as though unread. "Sebastian, or Ruling Passions (1983), is the fourth volume in The Avignon Quintet series by British author Lawrence Durrell, which was published from 1974 to 1985. This novel is set mainly in Switzerland immediately after World War II. It continues the story of Constance and a Gnostic cult, which was introduced in the first novel of the quintet, Monsieur (1974)." (Wikipedia)