Six Books from the Personal Library of American Editor and Journalist Charles Eugene Banks

This extremely rare set of books is from the personal library of the late Charles Eugene Banks (1852-1932), an American newspaper editor, journalist, author, novelist, poet, playwright, historian, and orator. Born in Iowa, Banks was the founder, owner and editor of a newspaper in Davenport. While there he mentored several young writers knows as the Davenport Group, which later included a screenwriter and a Pulitzer Prize winner. He later moved to Seattle where he worked as a dramatic editor for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. This book set is part of a formidable collection, once owned by Charles Banks, that has been in the careful custody of the same family since the early 1930s. Shortly after Banks passed away, a member of his family offered several books to a family friend who had an interest in them. A Girdle Round the Earth, published in 1894, written by D.N. Richardson. Subtitled “Home Letters from Foreign Lands,” this 449 page book documents the author’s 400-day trip around t