53: Carlton (A.Phelps). Twenty Years of Spoof & Bluff

Carlton (Arthur Phelps). Twenty Years of Spoof & Bluff. London, 1920. Red cloth. Portrait frontispiece, illustrated with plates. 8vo. Rear board stained, otherwise good condition. This biography of the famous music hall comedy magician Carlton (billed as the “Human Hairpin”), chronicling his rise to fame as a star in British music halls and on tours of Australia. Carlton fell from his lofty position as a star attraction, dying in abject poverty, a victim of alcoholism.