Originally published in Germany in 1845 as Lustige Geschichten und drollige Bilder, with only 15 pages, the book was expanded and renamed Struwwelpeter in 1847. Pages but generally good and, overall, an acceptable copy of a very early edition. One very large tear on page one repaired pages 23 and 24 have had smaller tears repaired. Some spotting and soiling internally, some old tears have been repaired and page edges strengthened. The Leipzig stamp on the cover is dated 1846, but printed Circa 1850.Bound in original covers with loss of some of the printed paper surface mainly around edges and corners the paper on the covers are generally cracked and rubbed new linen spine. 24 pages printed and hand-coloured on rectos only. Published by Friedrich Volckmar, Leipsic. Even in the BasedOnATrueStory war film ''Rescue Dawn'', the German-born USN aviator ] has Flying Robert and his umbrella painted on the side of his plane.Fourth Edition. Dwight Schrute attempts to use it to entertain the children of his coworkers on Bring Your Daughter To Work Day, only for Michael to quickly intervene due to the disturbing nature of the stories, telling Dwight, ''"The kids don't want to hear some weirdo book that your Nazi war criminal grandmother gave you."'' The Doctor reads the book to a bunch of street urchins in ] ]. An episode of ''Series/TheOfficeUS'' also featured the book.
Interestingly enough, the "Johnny Head-in-Air" victim, although intended to drown, does in fact live.
An episode of ''Series/VanDerValk'', a long-running British crime drama, features a SerialKiller who takes revenge on his victims by subjecting them to the same fates as in the stories.
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