JOHN BAUER. Trolls : Ten original lithographs. Gothenburg: Ernst Bauers publishing house, 1915.

Complete portfolio containing 10 original lithographs, signed in the print.
All mounted at the top on sheets of 23.5 x 31.3 cm.
A total of 32 non-paginated pages: Foreword by Carl Larsson, 3 pages.
1. Christmas Eve, 9.9 x 12.8 cm.
2. Hump, 9.4 x 11.2 cm.
3. Good evening, uncle! said the boy, 9.4 x 13 cm.
4. Here you have everything that remains of my clothes!, 9.1 x 13.3 cm.
5. Two suitors, 9.3 x 10.5 cm.
6. The little princess and the troll, 9 x 13.5 cm.
7. The magic horse, 9.5 x 10.5 cm.
8. Such a miserable little pale nose! said the troll, 9, 13.5 cm.
9. The princess and the little trolls, 9.4 x 11.3 cm.
10. The troll's stepdaughter 10.3 x 13.8 cm.

At the age of 16, John Bauer leaves his hometown of Jönköping and moves to Stockholm. He begins studies at the Technical School and Althin's School of Painting before being enrolled as a student at the Art Academy in the fall of 1900. Four years later, he heads to Lapland to get material for illustrations on behalf of book publisher Carl Adam Victor Lundholm. The following year he exhibited at Valand in Gothenburg. Just before Christmas 1907, Tomtar och troll is published, illustrated by Bauer. It becomes a breakthrough for him and he becomes a name for a much wider audience. The auction's ten lithographs were published under the title Troll at his brother Ernst's publishing house in 1915, three years before John Bauer's tragic death.