copyright 1937; Crown Publishers, New York; hardbound; very good condition with unmarked pages except for previous owner's signature inside dated "5-18-37"; many b/w photos of paintings; no dust jacket.
 
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"Years ago a family of poor folk, natives of Cesena, left Italy to seek their fortunes in France.  Upon arriving in their adopted fatherland, the Cezannes - for they had taken the name of their native town - established themselves in the rustic Alpine city of Briancon, not far from the frontier that they just crossed.  But fate being constantly against them, some of their number set out to try their luck in another region.  Thus, towards the end of the eighteenth century, Louis-Auguste Cezanne, he who was to become the father of the painter, was born in a little village in the Department of Var..."