BLACK COPS

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Quantum Leap Publisher, Inc, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Inscribed by James N. Reaves on the front flyleaf. Compelling account of a forty-year career in law enforcement, written by Philadelphia's first black police captain. Reaves (1916-2016) "takes the reader behind the police barricades and into the front lines of the civil unrest of the 1960s, where Black policemen are torn between allegiance to their people and their oath of office." Octavo: [6], 197, [3] pp. with textual photographs. Original blue paper-covered boards over a blue cloth spine with gilt-stamped titles. The top corners are bumped, (truncated) with some general edgewear to the dust jacket; else about very good. (Inventory #: 78449)