Raging Bull: My Story.

First edition of this classic work, basis for the Academy Award-winning film, starring Robert De Niro. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Boldly inscribed by Jake La Motta and inscribed by Paul Schrader on the front free endpaper and signed by Robert De Niro on the dedication page. Robert De Niro starred in Raging Bull, Martin Scorsese's black-and-white biographical film about middleweight boxing champion Jake LaMotta. De Niro played LaMotta and famously underwent one of the most extreme physical transformations in film history for the part - training as a boxer for over a year (LaMotta himself said De Niro could have fought professionally), then gaining roughly sixty pounds to portray the bloated, washed-up LaMotta of the film's later sequences. The performance won him the Academy Award for Best Actor, his second Oscar after The Godfather Part II. The film is widely considered one of the greatest collaborations between De Niro and Scorsese, alongside Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, and The Irishman. Paul Schrader co-wrote the screenplay for the 1980 biographical drama Raging Bull. Schrader’s contribution shifted the emphasis from the sport itself to Jake LaMotta’s inner psychological struggle, highlighting his paranoia, jealousy, and self-destructive impulses. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket drawing by Murray Olderman. Author photograph by Peter Perri. Written with Joseph Carter and Peter Savage. A unique example.