We found this one on the living room table of a writer’s home – and it is a big one. Frank Lloyd Wright Designs: The Sketches, Plans, and Drawings is a massive tome coming this October on the Rizzoli imprint. As the title suggests, the book features one of the most comprehensive looks at sketches, elevations, designs, and mockups from the Frank Lloyd Wright studios. Frank Lloyd Wright Designs also gives a long look at the background work behind such projects as Fallingwater, The Coonley House, Midway Gardens, the Guggenheim, and the Imperial Hotel. A great gift idea for fans of the architect and beyond.

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Fans of ephemera from the art deco movement will applaud the new Art Deco Postcards book from Thames & Hudson. Its a great document into not only the architecture from the movement but the landscape that is set. The book shares more than 250 take-away and postcards that captured everything from nightclubs, airports, buildings, and beyond. These card served not only as a way of communicating with home when on the road or holiday, but also a reminder for the present of an artform that may have faded. A beautiful document. Out October 24, 2011. Available from Amazon.

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The powerHouse Books flips are a great way of giving many a look inside forthcoming volumes. We take a another look at the forthcoming Gary Cooper: Enduring Style book. As we mentioned, “The book compiles many never-before-seen photographs, many by Cooper’s wife Rocky, and compliments the images with thoughts from authors G. Bruce Boyer and Maria Cooper Janus.” Available from Amazon.

Rizzoli is set to deliver a new Nobo-centric cookbook in 2012. Nobu’s Vegetarian Cookbook is a focused look at healthy Japanese eating. Nobu Matsuhisa keeps the eye on the vegetable dishes with insight and expertise that travels across more than 60 recipes. “Nobu uses a wide range of cooking techniques—from marinating and pickling to steaming, roasting, boiling, frying, grating, etc.—to bring out the full flavors and textures of the vegetables. He also introduces tofu and yuba, both traditional Japanese ingredients made from soybeans, and offers ten recipes for vegetable sweets and fifteen for cocktails.” Pre-order from Amazon.

The latest addition of The Great American Pin-Up book from Taschen is just around the corner. Coming this October 2011 from Tashen. Available from Amazon. The 280 page book is a special look into origins and development of the the genre’s most important artists. Filled with more than 500 illustrations, The Great American Pin-Up is a comprehensive a study as it gets. The new addition arrives in October 2011. A great price from Taschen at $19.99 retail. Available from Amazon.

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The golden age of a baseball was one that was controlled by the leagues… when players’ rights were low and almost unestablished. Today’s game may not be that different but a document of those times is an important one not only for the sport of baseball itself, but as a part of the American landscape.

Charles M. Conlon photographed the game from 1904 – 1942. More than 205 of those photographs have now been collected in the book, Baseball’s Golden Age: The Photographs of Charles M. Conlon, out now on the Abrams imprint. The photographs were sourced from the archives of the The Sporting News and transferred from negatives. A beautiful addition for anyone who loves the game. Available from Amazon.

Photography: Charles M. Conlon/Abrams

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Chronicle Books is set to deliver an excellent book of photography from Pat Graham. Instrument is a collection that documents the connection between the musician and their instrument(s). For more than ten years, Graham documented the connection both on the road with bands and in their studios and homes.

Featured in Instrument are members of Fugazi, Built to Spill, Band of Horses, Modest Mouse, Sonic Youth, The Smiths, New Order, Flaming Lips, R.E.M. and many others. Coming October 2011. Pre-order from Amazon.

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Cool Hunting turns us onto this forthcoming book collecting the furniture and interiors work of Knoll. The Knoll Textiles, 1945-2010 book looks specifically at their textile department, which focused on “modern sensibility that used color and texture as primary design elements.” As mentioned by the publisher, “The division thrived in the late 1940s through 1960s and, in the following decade, adopted a more international outlook as design direction shifted to Europe. In the late 1970s and 1980s, Knoll tapped fashion designers and architects to bolster its brand.”

Knoll Textiles, 1945-2010 collects essays and bios from more than 80 designers as well as an ephemera, drawings, and furniture from the period. The book is available today. Amazon has it.

Photography: Cool Hunting

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As a followup to our post on the forthcoming Louis Vuitton: Architecture and Interiors book, Vuitton releases this teaser video highlighting the launch. As mentioned, the book is a “look inside the commissioned architecture and interior works of Vuitton flagships and boutiques.” Look for it October 4, 2011.

Chonicle Books’ The MAD Fold-In Collection: 1964-2010 is a great four volume box-set collecting more than 40 years worth of Al Jaffee’s iconic fold-ins for MAD Magazine. “Generations have grown up with Jaffee’s inspired skewerings of our foibles and cultural conundrums. Issue after issue, each Fold-in requires the reader to simply fold the page so that arrow A meets arrow B to reveal the hidden gag image, a simple idea that masks both undeniable artistic ingenuity and comic timing. In this deluxe four-volume set, each of the 410 fold-ins is reproduced at its original size, with a digital representation of the corresponding “folded” image on the following page.”

Look for The MAD Fold-In Collection: 1964-2010 on September 7, 2011.