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[BAUER, John]. Bland Tomtar Och Troll. En Samling Sagor. Med Techningar Av John Bauer. Red. Cyrus Granr. [A Collection of Fairy Tales. With illustrations by John Bauer. Ed. by Cyrus Granr.]. [Gteborg, Sweden: hln & kerlunds Frlag] 1914. 8vo, 102 pp. White cloth with front cover pictorially stamped in gilt. Pictorial endpapers; 11 mounted color plates and a few smaller b&w illustrations. Cloth minutely soiled, pages a tad aged, else a remarkably clean, bright copy.

First and only edition. The eighth of the annual Swedish collection of fairy tales, titled Among Gnomes and Trolls in English, and one of only 8 editions illustrated entirely by John Bauer before his untimely death in a shipwreck in 1918. Though eighth in the series, this is only the third issue to have Bauers incredible artwork reproduced in full color.