Dear
friend of Beyond Words,
Welcome to another edition of the Beyond Words newsletter and one in
which we have some bad news tempered by some plans for the future.
We also have news of some eagerly awaited new releases.
It is with great regret we have to inform you that Beyond Words will not be able to continue trading at its premises in Cockburn Street, Edinburgh. We really appreciate the support our customers have given the shop since we opened in January 1998. Unfortunately the book marketplace has changed enormously during that time and our sales have been on a gradual downward slope for some years while rent, rates and other costs have increased.
The shop will be closing for good in mid-July. A closing-down sale is already under way, with 20% or more off the majority of our titles. If you want to continue to support Beyond Words, please come and take advantage of the great reductions.Despite this undeniable bad news we want to focus on the future and find ways of continuing to provide a service to customers, old and new. Beyond Words will continue as a business, customers will still be able to order books by phone and email and via the website and a monthly online e-newsletter will continue to be published.
By reducing our costs, we hope to be able to offer a 10% discount across the board to our customers and to offer carriage-free delivery, at least to our Edinburgh customers. Other customers will continue to benefit from the flat-rate courier rates we currently offer. We also intend to build up a more detailed database of customers’ specific photographic interests so that we can target information about new titles more effectively.
If you would like to contact us to make your own comments and suggestions about how you would like to see Beyond Words develop, or if you have specific requirements that we do not currently fulfill, we would be very happy to hear from you.
Once again, to everyone who has supported our Cockburn Street shop over the years, we would like to offer our sincere appreciation and hope that we can continue to offer you excellent service in the future. |
Michael Kenna's new book Venezia has now arrived in its luxurious slipcase. Taken over a period of 30 years this beautiful book has everything you would expect from a Michael Kenna book and from Nazreali Press, whose reputation for elegance and care is very well deserved. The regular edition (if such a term can be applied to a Nazraeli Press book) is available now (£50) and special editions are due soon. |
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Also from Nazraeli Press is a publication that is sure to please aficionados of platinum palladium prints. Kenro Izu has long been a master of this exquisite printing process and to celebrate the thirtieth year of his ongoing “Sacred Places” series, Nazraeli Press have released Kenro Izu: Thirty Year Retrospective (Hardback, £50), a stunning collection of the artist’s most powerful work to date. Stock now available. |
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In our last newsletter we alerted you to the imminent arrival of a new book by Josef Hoflehner and a new expanded version of an old favourite. The wait is now over as Unleashed 3 (Hardback, £50), Hoflehner's third retrospective, and Iceland (Hardback, £50) have now arrived. Unleashed 3 further demonstrates Hoflehner's ability to bring a fresh approach to well known and much photographed sites from around the world while anyone who saw his original book Iceland will not be disappointed to see more images added to this bestselling volume. More than just the location of an inconvenient volcano, Iceland also possesses a unique landscape and one that is ideally suited to Hoflehner's visual style. |
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Always popular, reasonably priced and guarenteed to provoke an emotional response, World Press Photo '10 (Paperback, £14.95) collects together some of the most haunting and inspiring photographs from 2009 – nearly 180 pictures submitted by photojournalists, picture agencies, newspapers and magazines throughout the world. Publishing the results of the most recent annual World Press Photo Contest, the photographs in this exceptional book have been selected from more than 96,000 images taken by over 5,000 photographers representing 124 countries and capture the most powerful, moving and sometimes disturbing events of the year. |
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The subject of two recent Edinburgh shows (at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the Ingleby Gallery), the work of Francesca Woodman is becoming increasing well known, many years after her tragic suicide. With so little available for so long, Phaidon's massive retrospective in 2006 was enthusiastically received. When this edition sold out there was nervous anticipation to see how long we would have to wait for such an exhaustive retrospective of Woodman's work. Fortunately, Phaidon have now brought this wait to an end with this re-print (Hardback, £45) of what must be the essential volume of Woodman's photographs. |
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It may seem absurd in a month when we announce the closure of our Cockburn Street shop, but in the last few years the value of photographic books has increased dramatically. Often no sooner has a quality title gone out of print than copies begin exchanging hands online for vastly inflated prices. In such a climate, that book that you always meant to buy but never got around to can suddenly become unobtainable without breaking the bank. It is therefore always handy to have advance warning and so we bring you the news that Democratic Camera, the impressive retrospective of William Eggleston's work, is now selling online for £95 a copy. We however have a number of copies in stock at the publisher's price of £35. To make sure of your copy either phone the shop or order online. |
As always if you would like to order any of the titles listed or would like more information concerning anything mentioned in our newsletters please contact us by phone or at the email address at the bottom of this message. You may also order any of these books at www.beyondwords.co.uk.
Best Wishes,
Beyond Words
Fax: (0131) 226 6676
Email: info@beyondwords.co.uk
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