The Ballad of Soames Bantry : and other stories from the fabled life and New York years of photographer, painter, and poet Saul Leiter / by Michael Torosian, based upon the accumulated reflections of the artist and his circle.

Includes Leiter's unpublished poems, photographs, and reproductions of paintings rendered in 10-micron stochastic four-color offset lithography and individually tipped in within a letterpress debossed tint block.
With additional textual contributions by Torosian, Philippe Laumont, Grace Coddington, Robert Benton, Alan Porter, Jane Livingston, Howard Greenberg, Adam Harrison Levy, Tomas Leach, Anders Goldfarb, and Margit Erb.
The book's epilogue is taken in its entirety from Michael Torosian's conversation with Saul Leiter of August 1, 2013, the artist's last interview.
Printed in a numbered edition of 250 of which copies 1 to 50 have been retained for the exclusive use of the Howard Greenberg Gallery.
The Morgan's copy is marked H/C and signed in pencil in colophon by Torosian, as issued. Acquired with a collection of Lumiere Press' archival materials related to this publication, including proofs, trials, type specimens, Intertype slugs, photopolymer and copper plates, as well as extensive documentation; this archival material has been cataloged separately as PML 199078.