{"product_id":"to-2026-141","title":"Call of the House (INSCRIBED)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMITCHELL, Ruth Comfort.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCall of the House.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING.\u003c\/strong\u003e New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1927.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8vo. 309 pp. + [2] pp publisher's advertisements. Original green cloth with gilt lettering, in the pictorial color dust jacket; the verso carries an advertisement for Mitchell's previous novel \u003cem\u003eThe Wishing Carpet\u003c\/em\u003e (1926) at $2.00, fixing this as the original first-printing jacket. In a pictorial dust jacket, presented in an archival sleeve; boards clean beneath the jacket, the inscription bright and fully legible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in blue ink, signed with her married name and place-dated at her Los Gatos home: \"With a Gluck Auf! and every good wish for a happy and successful trip and a quick return to your friends. Faithfully, Ruth Comfort Mitchell Young. Yung See San Fong. May 31st, 1927.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCall of the House\u003c\/em\u003e is set in California political life and centers on Dean Yale, a young woman recruited to run for the state senate by her uncle, a county boss. She wins — then discovers he assumes she will be \"kept in line,\" and the novel turns on her decision to break with him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-141\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mitchell, Ruth Comfort","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":46459955806369,"sku":"TO-2026-141","price":185.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-141_01_0e3cf724-e635-4660-a80c-aaaa98523196.jpg?v=1783389373","url":"https:\/\/twoorangesbooks.com\/products\/to-2026-141","provider":"Two Oranges Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}