bks.

American  

abbreviation

1. banks.

2. barracks.

3. books.

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bks British  

abbreviation

1. barracks

2. books

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Example Sentences

Archimago is introduced in bks. i. and ii. of Spenser's Faëry Queen.

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham

See illustrations and map near the end of bks. v. and vi. respectively.

From The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Butler, Samuel

All Bach's Choral Preludes, miscellaneous and in collections made by himself, are in Novello's edition, bks. 15-19.

From Johann Sebastian Bach by Forkel, Johann Nikolaus

No distinct account is given of the first, but an answer may be gathered from the general argument of bks. ii., iii., and iv.

From The Consolation of Philosophy by James, H. R. (Henry Rosher)