National Geographic Society Vintage Hardcover Book

Updated August 28, 2026

A pair of vintage hardcover reference books published by the National Geographic Society. The first volume is Men, Ships, and the Sea, featuring contributions by Captain Alan Villiers and others, with a copyright date of 1973. The illustrated endpapers are titled The Anatomy of a Sailing Ship. The second volume is Wild Animals of North America. It is a 1971 fifth printing with revisions and an original 1960 copyright. Both volumes are bound in cloth-covered boards with original illustrated dust jackets. The copyright pages identify the National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C. as the publisher, with the zoology volume bearing Standard Book Number 87044-020-9 and Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 60-15019.Height: 10 1/4 inchesThe books are in fair to good overall vintage condition. The dust jacket for Wild Animals of North America exhibits a large open tear and significant paper loss at the top left corner of the front cover along with edgewear and chipping at the spine ends. The dust jacket for Men, Ships, and the Sea shows moderate shelf wear, light rubbing to the corners, and small tears to the top and bottom edges. The interior bindings remain tight and the pages are

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