Grosso Sonny John Devaney (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. NOT a library discard; privately owned hardback book with dust jacket. The jacket is NOT price-clipped and has a few small tears. It looks SUPER under the fresh mylar cover I've added. The book is sharp, tight, crisp and clean with no writing and no remainder mark.

Hardcover. Condition: Collectible, Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Octavo, hardcover, fine in VG black dj, showing very light edgewear. photo at back of dj. 224 pp. including epilogue. In 1972, a white cop is murdered inside the Harlem Mosque, temple of the militant and hostile Black Muslims. This event sets forth a number of political and social ramifications.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Inscription on front flyleaf, previous owners sticker.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover with dustjacket, book size is 6" x 9". Condition of dustjacket is good+ with small 1" x 1" chip front cover top near right corner, wear and small tears to jacket at top of spine, wear to jacket corners, couple small tears to jacket at top of back cover. Book is in very good condition with slight indent to bottom right corners.224 pages with photos. --- "A white cop is murdered inside the Harlem Mosque, temple of the militant and hostile Black Muslims. A violent riot floods out into the streets.".

Hardcover. Condition: New.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First Edition. INSCRIBED by author Sonny Grosso and former NYPD detective (and principal figure in the book) Randy Jurgensen on the half-title: "To one of the exclusive members of the 'Son's of Rest Club' / Your pals / Sonny Grosso / Randy Jurgensen." A nonfiction account from the 1970s, about Black and white police officers contending with Black militants associated with the shooting of a white cop at the Harlem Mosque in New York City. Near Fine in an about Near Fine dust jacket. Light wear to the jacket corners, with a short closed tear to the bottom edge of the rear panel. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Crown Publishers, New York. 1977. 224 pgs. Illustrated with 16 pages of illustrations. Signed and inscribed by Sonny Grosso and Randy Jurgensen on the half-title page. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards clean with no wear present. This is the riveting story of how in 1972 officers responding to a false "10-13" (officer in trouble) call entered the Harlem Mosque and were attacked, one murdered, and the incident's aftermath. As tragic as it was, the murder was not the real story. In fact, several officers had been ambushed and murdered in the same precinct within a year of this incident by a group calling themselves the Black Liberation Army (BLA) *. The real story is how the Black Muslims, lead by Minister Louis Farrakhan, had the mayor and police commissioner so intimidated that they ordered all police officers out of the Mosque, which was now a crime scene, severely hampering the murder investigation. They later ordered all white officers to stay away from the entire area of the mosque to appease Farrakhan and his followers. This book is an indictment of the higher echelons of a police department that was more concerned with maintaining an appearance of race relations than solving the murder of a police officer. E-290; 9.0 X 6.1 X 1.0 inches; 224 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. ISBN:0517529718.A USED BOOK STILL IN GOOD CONDITION. LITTLE WEARS AND TEARS ON DUST JACKET CORNER AND EDGE. FORMER LIBRARY BOOK WITH LIMITED LIBRARY MARK. PAGES ARE STILL CLEAN AND BINDING STILL TIGHT. LITTLE YELLOWING PAPER BECAUSE OF AGE. LITTLE STAIN DOT ON SOME PAGES BUT NOT AFFECT TEXT. ILLUSTRATED WITH B&W PHOTO.TOTAL 224 PAGES.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. 224pp. Illustrated with black and white plates. Slight spotting on the page edges and owner bookplate on the front pastedown thus near fine in a very good dust jacket with chips, tears, and toning.