Signed book: Babes in the Darkling Wood. First edition. NY: Alliance Book Corporation, 1940. Hardcover with dustjacket housed in a custom clamshell box, 6.5 x 9.5, 410 pages. Signed by Wells on the front free end page and inscribed and dated (1940) in another hand to Walter E. Guyette. In fine condition, with toning, soiling, and chips to jacket and toning and light toning to signed page and interiors of covers. R&R COA.