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Beyond Words is Britain's foremost independent, specialist retailer of photographic books
Discount on All Orders

With immediate effect, all new titles ordered by phone, email or through the website will be sold at 10% off the recommended price. Titles newly uploaded onto the website show the discount. Older titles will not show the discount but the discount will be applied by us when your card payment is put through.

Free Delivery Within Edinburgh

After the closure of our Cockburn Street shop, we will deliver all orders to business or domestic addresses within the City of Edinburgh without charge. A flat rate of £4.30 for courier delivery will apply to all other locations as before.

New Releases

		Venezia Michael Kenna Publisher's Price £50 Our Price £45 'This crumbling jewel of Northern Italy, built completely on marshland, is steeped in history and irresistibly imbued with romance. Known as “The City of Light” and “Queen of the Adriatic,” Venezia is indelibly tinged with dark intrigue, decadence and decay. This beautifully produced book brings together a collection of haunting images quietly made by Michael Kenna over the last 30 years, many of which are published here for the first time. '

		America by Car Lee Friedlander Publisher's Price £37.95 Our Price 34.16 'Lee Friedlander is the first photographer to make the car an actual "form" for making photographs. Driving across most of the country's 50 states in an ordinary rental car, Friedlander applied the brilliantly simple conceit of deploying the sideview mirror, rearview mirror, the windshield and the side windows as a picture frame within which to record the country's eccentricities and obsessions at the turn of the century.'

		Road Divided Todd Hido Publisher's Price £50 Our Price £45 Todd Hido's latest book for Nazraeli Press provides a fascinating and frequently beautiful alternative (or companion) to the Friedlander book above. This book proves that the American Road, such a well worn path in the history of photography, can still produce unique and beautiful results so many years after a certain Swiss photographer set out across that vast country.

For a full list of New Releases click here or see the categories menu on the right.

Forthcoming Titles

		Some Points in Between... Up Till Now Robert Polidori £27 'This book for the first time assembles images from Polidori’s major photographic series Beirut, Versailles, Havanna, New Orleans and Pripyat and Chernobyl, giving an overall impression of his oeuvre.'

For a full list of Forthcoming Titles click here or see the categories menu on the right.

Limited Editions/Signed Copies

		Iceland (Expanded 2nd Edition) Josef Hoflehner £50 Signed Copies 'Magnificent reprint of one of the most popular black-and-white landscape photography books: Iceland, originally published in late 2006, the first edition completely sold-out in a matter of months, and shortly after, signed copies of the first edition were sold for $300 per copy on internet auctions. The long-awaited second edition has now arrived. As a bonus, the second edition has even more majestic photographs from Iceland.'

For a full list of Limited Editions click here, for Signed Copies click here or see the categories menu on the right.