A collection of hardcover volumes from two series published by Time-Life Books: The Seafarers and The Epic of Flight. The books are quarto in size and bound in dark blue textured faux-leather. Volumes from The Seafarers series are decorated with gilt lettering and horizontal bands to the spines, with matching gilt-bordered colour pictorial insets to the front boards. Titles present in this series include The Explorers, The Pirates, The Windjammers, Fighting Sail, The Armada, The Great Liners, The Frigates, The Whalers, The U-Boats, The Ancient Mariners, The Atlantic Crossing, The East Indiamen, The Vikings, The Northwest Passage, The Clipper Ships, The Spanish Main, The Pacific Navigators, The Venetians, The Men-of-War, The Racing Yachts, and The Dreadnoughts. Volumes from The Epic of Flight series are bound in similar dark blue material with silver lettering to the spines and colour pictorial insets to the front boards. Titles present in this series include The Road to Kitty Hawk, Women Aloft, The RAF at War, Barnstormers & Speed Kings, The First Aviators, The Airline Builders, The Pathfinders, The Aeronauts, The Giant Airships, Architects of Air Power, and Knights of the Air. Each volume bears the publisher’s mark, Time-Life Books, on the spine. These series were issued without dust jackets.
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