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ephemera

From ArtLex, which offers this characteristically thorough definition: ”printed matter, intended to have only fleeting interest. ‘Ephemera’ comes from the Greek word ‘ephemeros’ meaning ‘lasting a day.’ Examples are: tickets, leaflets, promotional literature or pamphlets, handbills, package labels, campaign buttons or badges, scrapbooks, maps, sheet music, bird's-eye views, playbills, posters, postcards…”

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2000 Covers of Life $20.00 - sold	Alte Reklame Made in USA $30.00 - sold	Amazing Stories Magazine: Fact and Science Fiction, Dec. 1961 $18.00
American Builder, December 1928 $25.00 - sold	American Builder, June 1929 $25.00 - sold	American Builder, March 1929 $25.00 - sold
American Builder, May 1929 $25.00 - sold	American Builder, November 1926 $25.00 - sold	American Builder, November 1928 $25.00 - sold
An Aspect of Illusion(CUAS 9) $28.00 - sold	Armstrong's Quaker Rugs & Floor Coverings 1929 $95.00 - sold	Art in Confectionery and Pastry $85.00 - sold
Baby's Red Letter Days $85.00 - sold	Ben Day $95.00 - sold	Bettendorf Bears $150.00 - sold
Bird Rugs and Floor Coverings, Patterns for 1938 $95.00	Bob Dylan Concert Program, 1978 $20.00 - sold	Build Your Own Brooklyn Bridge $35.00 - sold
Build Your Own Chrysler Building $35.00 - sold	Build Your Own Empire State Building $35.00	Catalog of Marking Devices and Manual of Usage $75.00 - sold
Certain-teed Linoleum Floortex $48.00	Chase Brothers Company Camera and Brush Catalog $150.00	Conoco in '34 $38.00 - sold
Dated Bookplates: 1516 to 1895 $125.00	Designing and Building a Model Car $55.00	Fall and Winter Catalogue $48.00
Fashions in Foods in Beverly Hills $95.00 - sold	First Spring of Peace: A Contact Book $48.00	Fortune Vol. 1, 1930, Nos. 3, 4, & 5 (three issues, bound) $235.00
Fun for Everyone $28.00	Goodyear Rubber Floors: Manual of Information $145.00	Harper's School Geography $35.00
How to Dance $45.00 - sold	How to Dance $45.00	How To Electroplate Baby Shoes for Pleasure and Profit $95.00
Johnson Smith & Co. Catalog $165.00	Martin's Standard Air Transportation Label Catalog $15.00 - sold	Match Your Rooms to Your Personality $55.00 - sold
Mirror Guide to New York $65.00	Mobelvorlagen Werk V 137 $150.00 - sold	Modern Inspirations in Home Decoration, Thayer & Chandler 1929 Catalog $60.00
Modern Packaging, Vol. 25, No. 6, February 1952 $35.00	New York, The Wonder City of the World $35.00 - sold	New York, the Wonder City: Views of Beautiful New York City $25.00 - sold
Nurseryman's Book $165.00 - sold	Paris and its Environs $50.00	Pep Boys 1960 Catalog $55.00
Playbill: Gorey Stories, October 1978 $60.00	Posters American Style $60.00	Printed Ephemera $25.00 - sold
Pseudo-Isochromatic Plates for Testing Color Perception (Revised Selection) $85.00 - sold	Qui Etes-Vous Mr. Freedom?: Ironical Movies in 1960-1970 $95.00	Sears, Roebuck & Co. Consumers Guide, Fall 1909 $30.00
Sinclair & Valentine Co. Printing Inks Catalogue No. 8 $85.00 - sold	Smico Fan-Out Color Selector $38.00 - sold	Spring and Summer Catalogue $65.00
Stage Makeup $30.00	Swimsuits: 100 Years of Pictures, National Geographic Collector's Edition Vol. 4 $45.00 - sold	Tap Dancing for Beginners $55.00 - sold
Teachers' Requisitions for Text Books $35.00	The Architectural Forum, January 1948 $75.00 - sold	The Architectural Record, For Quarter Ending June 30, 1893 $65.00
The Architectural Record, For Quarter Ending March 31, 1896 $65.00 - sold	The Beauty Angle Position $65.00 - sold	The Classroom Printer Guide $48.00
The Hanoum Camps for Girls $48.00 - sold	The HO Railroad That Grows $15.00	The Home Garden $28.00 - sold
The Home, 1923 $75.00	The Home, 1923 $75.00 - sold	The Lucky Bag (US Naval Academy Annual) $200.00 - sold
The Museum of Modern Art Bulletin: Department of Industrial Design $28.00 - sold	The National Archives of the United States $48.00	The New Yorker, April 23, 1932 $100.00 - sold
The Pleasure Chest Compendium of Amourous & Prurient Paraphernalia $65.00 - sold	The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: a Calendar for the Year 1912 $35.00 - sold	The Story of the Armory Show $45.00 - sold
The Story of the Armory Show $75.00 - sold	The Story of the Armory Show $75.00	The Wolf Cubbook $35.00
This is Japan 1966 $45.00 - sold	This is Japan 1966 $45.00	Tip Top Tapping $45.00
Tip Top Tapping $45.00 - sold	Tools for Machinists and Metal Workers, Catalog #115 $125.00	Typographic Facts $95.00 - sold
Vick Lawston's Giant Surprise Catalog $175.00 - sold	Viele Grusse: Eine Kulturgeschichte der Postkarte $24.00 - sold	Where Paris Dines $55.00 - sold
Who's Who in New York $70.00	Woodcut Bookplates Souvenir $385.00	Y & E Filing System Supplies Catalog No. 3700 $65.00
Your Hidden Skeleton $65.00 - sold	Zanol Catalog $55.00 - sold	Zanol, Catalog No. 1, Edition A $65.00 - sold
Zanol, Catalog No. 2, Edition A $65.00 - sold

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