Jake La Motta – Raging Bull – My Story – La Motta with Joseph Carter and Peter Savage – SIGNED First US Edition 1970
£650.00
A first USA edition, first printing by Prentice-Hall in 1970 inscribed and signed by the author “To my very good friend/Frank/ (to[sic] bad he can’t fight, Jake La Motta” to the front free end paper. A near fine copy with only slight fading to the board edges and slight bumping to the tips of the spine. Clean internally with slight browning to the text block. In a near fine clipped wrapper showing a patch of rubbing to the front flap, some wear to the spine tips and one small closed tear to the head of the front panel.
Meet Jake La Motta: thief, rapist, killer. Raised in the Bronx slums, he fought on the streets, was sent to reform school, and served time in prison. At the age of twenty-seven, after eight years of fighting, he became Middleweight Champion of the World. At the peak of his success he fell apart and began a swift, harrowing descent into a nightmare. Raging Bull is the ‘Bronx Bull’s’ brutally candid memoir.
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A first USA edition, first printing by Prentice-Hall in 1970 inscribed and signed by the author “To my very good friend/Frank/ (to[sic] bad he can’t fight, Jake La Motta” to the front free end paper. A near fine copy with only slight fading to the board edges and slight bumping to the tips of the spine. Clean internally with slight browning to the text block. In a near fine clipped wrapper showing a patch of rubbing to the front flap, some wear to the spine tips and one small closed tear to the head of the front panel.
Meet Jake La Motta: thief, rapist, killer. Raised in the Bronx slums, he fought on the streets, was sent to reform school, and served time in prison. At the age of twenty-seven, after eight years of fighting, he became Middleweight Champion of the World. At the peak of his success he fell apart and began a swift, harrowing descent into a nightmare. Raging Bull is the ‘Bronx Bull’s’ brutally candid memoir.
