Summer Magic Auction
Sat, Jun 19, 2021 12:00PM EDT
Lot 47
Dunninger, Joseph. Collection of Dunninger Radio Scripts an...
Estimate: $800 - $1,500
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Dunninger, Joseph. Collection of Dunninger Radio Scripts and ?Brain-Busters.? 1940s ? 50s. Approximately 200 typed and handwritten pages, primarily authored by David J. Lustig (?La Vellma?), the principal ghostwriter for Joseph Dunninger. Archive includes scripts for Dunninger?s Kem-Tone sponsored radio program, detailed methods for various magic tricks and mind reading feats (glass breaking, envelope tests, etc.; some accompanied by drawings in Lustig?s hand), a screen treatement for ?File 77k ? Homicide, from the casebook of Dunninger the Mental Detective,? and others. With scattered annotations in Lustig?s hand. 4to pages, both typed and mimeo, some bound in original wrappers or stapled at corners, with the Brain Busters in a Lustig printed folder. A fascinating and revealing archive from the career of the most celebrated mentalist of the twentieth century.
