Up for sale is a vintage bound volume of The National Geographic Magazine from January through June 1943 (Volume LXXXIII), housed in a brown cloth-covered publisher/library binder with blind-stamped and embossed cover titling.

This WWII-era collection is packed with historical military articles, strategy reports, natural color plates, historic war-era advertising, and three original large fold-out supplement maps. It also includes rare original wartime National Geographic Society paper-rationing inserts and member reports from the era.

Key Issues Included:

• January 1943 (Vol. LXXXIII, No. 1): Glass "Goes to Town", From Sand to Seer and Servant of Man, American Bombers Attacking from Australia, War Finds Its Way to Gilbert Islands, Your Dog Joins Up, Eastward from Gibraltar.

• February 1943 (Vol. LXXXIII, No. 2): Alaskan Highway an Engineering Epic, Curaçao and Aruba on Guard, Oil Isles of the Caribbean, Convoys to Victory, King of Cats and His Court, Africa First of 1943 Global Maps, Your Society Aids War Effort.

• March 1943 (Vol. LXXXIII, No. 3): San Francisco: Gibraltar of the West Coast, Bolivia—Tin Roof of the Andes, Norway, an Active Ally, Sydney Faces the War Front Down Under, Malta Invicta.

• April 1943 (Vol. LXXXIII, No. 4): The Long River of New England, Flow Onward, Connecticut, Farmers Keep Them Eating, Color Glows in the Guianas, French and Dutch, Surinam Subjects of Queen Wilhelmina, The British Commonwealth of Nations.

• May 1943 (Vol. LXXXIII, No. 5): Valiant Russia's Industrial Might, Life with Our Fighting Coast Guard, Coast Guard Patrol in Greenland, Land of a Million Smiles, Work and Play in the Ozarks, Climbing Mighty Minya Konka, Landmark of China's New Skyway.

• June 1943 (Vol. LXXXIII, No. 6): Insignia of the United States Armed Forces (featuring 991 illustrations in 32 pages of full color), The Traditions and Glamour of Insignia, Aircraft Insignia, Spirit of Youth, Scotland in Wartime, Lend-Lease Is a Two-way Benefit, New Map of Europe and the Near East, The Making of Military Maps.

Included Fold-Out Supplement Maps & Ephemera:

• June 1943 Map: "Europe and the Near East"

• April 1943 Map: "Northern and Southern Hemispheres"

• February 1943 Map: "Africa"

• Bonus Ephemera: Original 1940s WWII paper-shortage "Important Notice" slip regarding membership limitations, and the official folded Report to Members pamphlet (dated November 1944) featuring Admiral Chester W. Nimitz reviewing Pacific Fleet maps.