Vintage Cookbooks Bundle — Community + Brand Recipe Books (1925–1976) — Lutheran Club 1925 + Mandarin Chop Suey 1928 + Rumford 1939 | Ephemera Lot, Vintage Cookbooks

This Vintage Cookbooks bundle is pure kitchen time-capsule energy—church-supper classics, brand-test-kitchen staples, and a surprisingly charming “Mandarin Chop Suey” booklet from 1928. These are not pristine—they’re the real, splattered, scribbled, “passed-down and actually used” kind of books that carry family history in the margins. You’ll find everything from everyday soups and meat dishes to baking-brand recipes and bold 1970s graphics. Photo-verified, honestly described, and rescued from the landfill for the readers and collectors who get it.

Quick Specs

Item Type: Book bundle / lot (6 pieces)

• Size:
  ∙ Igleheart booklet: 7 × 5 in
  ∙ Rumford: 8 × 5 × 0.75 in
  ∙ Circus (Borden): 9 × 6 in
  ∙ Mandarin Chop Suey: 9 × 6 × 0.25 in
  ∙ Lutheran Club: 9 × 6 × 0.50 in
  ∙ Selected Recipes: Not provided

Material: Paper / cardstock; one clothbound hardcover (Rumford)

Color: Mixed (tan/ivory covers; red cloth; bright circus graphics)

Year or Era: 1925–1976 (see list)

GENRE: Vintage Cookbooks

Language / Pages: English

∙ Igleheart: 48 pages
∙ Rumford: 209 pages
∙ Lutheran: 103 pages
∙ Selected Recipes: 174 pages
∙ Circus: (no page numbers)
∙ Mandarin: Not provided

Edition & Features

• Condition/Printing: Mixed vintage printings; sold as a bundle
• Illustrations/Maps/Plates:
  ∙ Igleheart: many lithographs
  ∙ Circus: fun graphics + full-color food styling
  ∙ Rumford: full-color plates (photo-verified)
• Extras: Loose recipe slips + handwritten notes (photo-verified)

Included titles (photo-verified):

1. Selected Recipes — Compiled/edited by St. James Church Service League, St. James Episcopal Church, Grosse Ile, Michigan — 174 pages (binding split)
2. Lutheran Club Cook Book — 1925, compiled by Miss Anna Witt, Saginaw, Mich. — 103 pages + recipes written in back + loose recipes found between pages
3. Mandarin Chop Suey Cook Book — 1928, Second Edition, published by The Pacific Trading Company, Chicago, Illinois — scribbles + wear
4. The Revised Rumford Complete Cook Book — by Lily Haxworth Wallace — 1939 — 209 pages (clothbound; many stains; excellent content)
5. Create a Circus Spectacular Recipe Book (Borden) — 1976 — no page numbers, rip on back, bold retro graphics
6. Igleheart Brothers, Inc. recipe booklet — 7×5, 48 pages, “Orange Cream Cake (recipe page 6)” shown; much wear + stains; many lithographs

Condition Grade: Fair

Notes: This is a well-used bundle with visible age and kitchen wear throughout: staining/soiling, tanning, edge and corner wear, creases, and handling marks.

Specifics noted:

∙ Selected Recipes: cover wear + split binding
∙ Lutheran Club: heavy wear; handwritten recipes in back; loose recipes tucked inside
∙ Mandarin Chop Suey: scribbles, wear and tear
∙ Rumford: many stains, but strong,readable content and great photos
∙ Circus (Borden): rip on back, bright graphics
∙ Igleheart: much wear and stains, lithographs present

See all photos for detail—sold as pictured.

This bundle holds six recipe books from 1925 to 1976, including the 1925 Lutheran Club Cook Book compiled in Saginaw, and it belongs on a shelf of community and brand cookbooks. If it's the right copy for you, it's ready to come home.