[COOKBOOK]. The Brown Derby Cookbook. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1949. 8vo. 272 pp. Publisher's full yellow cloth, front board stamped in brown, spine stamped in brown and green, publisher's price-clipped dust jacket (light rubbing to cloth; jacket spine sunned and chipped, rear of jacket and spine dampstained, some rubbing, scuffing, light chipping, short tears). A near fine copy in a good jacket. FIRST EDITION IN THE UNCOMMON DUST JACKET. The original, iconic Brown Derby restaurant was a Los Angeles legend and was famously shaped like a giant brown derby hat. It later became a chain in Los Angeles. These restaurants were where the famous and near-famous would dine and were seen.