Literature from Akros Books

Chicago: The Open Court Publishing Company, 1905. 41 pages. Gray hardcover with red cloth spine. Worn at edges and corners, beginning to fray at head of spine. Some spotting of boards. Bookstore sticker on front free endpaper. Black-and-white frontispiece (reproduced form Baumeister's Denkmäler des klassischen Alterthums, volume I, figure 730) with intact tissue guard. Pages are age toned, clean, and… Read more

Cleveland, Ohio: The Rex Publishing Co., 1930. Light of Emerson. A Complete Digest with Key-Word Concordance. The Cream of All He Wrote. Majestic, Inspiring, Thought-Provoking Paragraphs and Utterances of America's Greatest Literary Genius - the Most Quoted Man of Modern Times - Known as "The Sage of Concord:, Compiled, Edited, and Condensed into One Volume. Two Thousand Quotable Thoughts. Many… Read more

London: Milner and Company No date of publication. Possibly circa 1865. The Life of Robin Hood 192 pages. Robin Hood's Garland 256 pages. Plus 16 pages of publisher's advertisements. Measures approximately 5" x 3 1/4". Brown hardcover, blindstamped decoration on both boards. Title on spine (Life & Ballads of Robin Hood) in gilt with gilt and black decorations. Binding is… Read more

Londini: Typis C. Corrall; Impensis G. Pickering, 1823. 220 pages. Text in Latin. Full calf with two line blind border is heavily worn. There is an approximately 1 1/2" piece of leather missing from the top of the spine. All edges gilt. Hinges cracked. Endpapers and title pages foxed. Text pages age toned. With the extra engraved title… Read more