True Prep

Lisa Birnbach With Chip Kidd

ISBN 10: 0307593983 / ISBN 13: 9780307593986

Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2010

About this Item

First edition stated. 5 3/4 x 8 1/2 Book; binding tight, minor bump to bottom front edge else boards straight and clean; text free of marks, appears unread. Dust jacket ($19.95) has minor bumping to top rear flap. Color bright and sharp. Under archival quality mylar cover. Photos upon request. Packed well and shipped in a sturdy box.

Seller Inventory # 042420AHH

Bibliographic Details

• Title: True Prep
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0307593983
• ISBN 13: 9780307593986
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Randy Glass
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

About this title

Synopsis

“Wake up, Muffy. We’re back.”

From Lisa Birnbach, the author of The Official Preppy Handbook—and designer Chip Kidd—comes a whole new take on the prep world that Birnbach turned into an international best-selling phenomenon thirty years ago.

True Prep is a contemporary look at how the old guard of natural-fiber-loving, dog-worshipping, G&T-soaked preppies adapt to the new order of things. Birnbach considers the prep attitude towards money (ambivalent), schools (good investment), wardrobe (now your clothes fit), work (some careers will never be prep), decorating (ask mummy), scandal (including rehab and prison), and food and drink (with some classic recipes for both). She also looks at weekends (and what to do to get asked back), entertaining, sports (including sailing and shopping), weddings, etiquette, the Internet and electronic gadgetry, political correctness, reality TV, and . . . polar fleece. And last but not least: a do-it-yourself eulogy.

With more than 200 original illustrations and photographs, True Prep promises to be a whole new, old sensation.

About the Author

Lisa Birnbach still wears her father’s tennis sweater, her grandmother’s pearls, and flies coach. In the last thirty years she’s been busy in old media, but she managed to meet Chip Kidd through Facebook.

Chip Kidd is a designer and writer at Alfred A. Knopf, where he has worked since 1986. In 1980, when he was in the tenth grade, The Official Preppy Handbook changed his life. This is his attempt to return the favor. He lives in New York City and Stonington, Connecticut.