Christine Dabney wrote:

> And no, they weren't published until the later 1960's.

From the site http://www.timelife.com/about/about.jsp?sectionId=698
<begin quote>
Founded in 1961 as the book division of Time Inc., Time-Life took its name
from Time Inc.'s cornerstone magazines, Time and Life, but remained
independent of both. By 1966, Time-Life combined its book offerings with
music collections (two to five records) and packaged them as a sturdy box
set. <end quote>

So, the Time-Life book series concept wasn't in existence until 1961. It is
very likely that Christine's recollections are correct.

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Dave
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