Pattern Conquest by Smith George, First Edition (27 results)

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Dustjacket. First Edition (stated). Orange Cloth Lettered In Red, First Edition Stated. A Lightly Worn Book, Previous Owner's Name On Endpaper, Pages Lightly Aged. Dust Jacket Priced $2.50, Clean, 3 Small Waterspots On Spine, Tiny Corner Chip And Up To 1/8" Chipping Along Top Of Spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. New York: Gnome Press Publishers 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Light brown/ Orange cloth with red lettering, 252 pages. A good copy with previous owner's name and Part of the dust jacket flap to front end papers, light wear and spine sunned. Lacking the jacket. See Photos clph.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Dustjacket. First Edition (stated). 294 Pp. Orange Cloth Lettered In Red. First Editin Stated. A Lightly Worn Book, Near Fine. Dust Jacket Priced $2.50, Light Wear, A Few Short Edge Tears With Minute Losses, Some Fading To Spine Panel.

First Edition. RESCUE PARTY in the May issue of ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION for 1946, first edition, a vg copy in full color pictorial wraps with original contributions by: John W. Campbell, George O. Smith, A. E. Van Vogt Lewis Padgett, William Tenn (ALEXANDER THE BAIT -his first professional sale), Fredric Brown, et.al.

Hard cover. Condition: Very good in good dust jacket. First edition. Edd Cartier dust jacket. First edition stated, book is clean and tight, jacket has some edge wear, cover is torn for about 2 1/2inches at the bottom at the front edge, other chips and small tears, not that bad.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good + Dust Jacket. First Edition (stated). 252 Pp. Orange Cloth ;Ettered In Red. First Edition Stated. Book With Just A Touch Of Wear At Corners And Along Bottom Edge Of Spine, Pages Lightly Aged, No Names Or Marks Or Bookplates. Dust Jacket Clean, Orange Color On Spine A Little Faded But Title Clear, Light Wear, Minute Losses At Corners, 1/4" Closed Tear At Top Of Front Panel, Two 1/8"' Closed Tears At Bottom Of Front Panel With Crease Connecting Them, Not Price-Clipped ($2.50).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Dust jacket in good condition. First edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Moderate loosening to binding. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Pattern for Conquest: An Interplanetary Adventure - George O. Smith First Edition, Gnome Press 1949 Ochre cloth stamped in red, pp. [viii], 9-252, [4] VG book, head edge foxed, endpapers toned in a VG- jacket with a three inch closed tear to head of front fore-edge, one inch closed tear to head of front joint, other minor chips, rubbing to extremities, spine faded. Fantastic jacket art by Edd Cartier.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition. Near fine in a near very good lightly spine-faded dust jacket with other light wear.

First edition. Octavo, jacket by Edd Cartier, cloth. Age darkening to text block, a nearly fine copy in a very good dust jacket with edge rubbing and shelf wear, some minor loss to corner tips, small chip with tears to upper left front corner with clear tape at head and heel of spine panel. (16749).

first edition. very good book, soiling, darker spine color copy jacket.

First Edition. PATTERN FOR CONQUEST in the April & May issues of ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION for 1946, first edition, just about vg copies in full color pictorial wraps with original contributions by: John W. Campbell, Lewis Padgett, Raymond F. Jones, Theodore Sturgeon, Arthur C. Clarke (RESCUE PARTY), William Tenn (ALEXANDER THE BAIT -his first professional sale), Fredric Brown, et.al.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Very good in an about Very good dustwrapper. Pages very light brown from age. Corners bent. Edges of spine bumped. Dustwrapper torn on all edges. Dustwrapper shelf rubbed. Dustwrapper spine faded.

First edition. Octavo, jacket by Edd Cartier, cloth. A nearly fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with mild edge rubbing and mild fade to the spine panel, tiny closed tear to the lower right corner. (31983).

Condition: Good Plus. First Edition, octavo hardcover lacking original dust jacket, 252pp. Andrew J. Offutt name stamp, & name/date in ink, on the front endpaper. Good Plus, lean, rubbing, heavy toning, edge foxing, corner bumps. A reader copy.

Hardcover. first edition hardcover. fine book, near fine jacket slight edge wear, chipped spine ends,

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition. !st UK edition. Orange cloth. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 203 pages. Item Type: Book. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No inscriptions. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy; Please contact H4o Books if you require images or further information. Inventory No: 025651.

Hardback. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: No DW. 1st Edition. Book in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age. BUT bit cocked.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. stated first edition with $2.50 on flap. An interplanetary adventure by one of the early stars of the Science Fiction genre in America. Book is fine and unmarked. Except for a small 1/8" chip to the bottom edge and a minor adjoining 2" crease, jacket is also fine, clean and bright. In an archval Mylar plastic jacket cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Cartier, Edd (illustrator). First Edition. George O. Smith built his reputation in the pages of Astounding Science Fiction, where his Venus Equilateral stories made him one of the defining voices of Golden Age hard SF. Pattern for Conquest, published by Gnome Press in 1949, was one of his earliest appearances in hardcover - a novel-length expansion of his serialized work, now in permanent form from the press doing more than any other publisher to give the pulp generation's best writers a lasting shelf life. The story follows humanity's first interstellar war, with Smith bringing his trademark engineering precision to questions of strategy, propulsion, and the mechanics of combat across impossible distances. It's quintessentially Golden Age in its confidence that problems, even civilizational ones, yield to clear thinking and technical mastery. Physical Description First edition, with the first edition statement on the copyright page, as confirmed by Currey (Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors , revised edition). Currey notes that a circa 1952 armed forces reprint in paper wrappers retains the first edition statement on the copyright page - the physical book itself is the necessary point of distinction. Chalker and Owings record a total print run of 5,000 copies, of which 2,000 were the paperback armed forces issue, placing the hardcover trade edition at approximately 3,000 copies. Dust jacket art by Edd Cartier. The jacket is in Very Good condition: some rubbing and minor chipping to the front panel and spine, no tears, unclipped with the original $2.50 price intact. The book is Very Good+: square with sharp corners, one minor stain to the top of the text block and to the rear pastedown. Interior pages are clean and exhibit minor tanning with no writing or markings. Collector's Note A scarce title in collectible condition and an important early Gnome Press hardcover for any serious collection of Golden Age science fiction. The combination of an intact, unclipped Edd Cartier jacket and a clean, square book makes this a superior example of a title that rarely surfaces in this state.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First UK Edition. UK, Clerke & Cockeran 1951 First UK edition 203 page hardcover in dust jacket. Vintage Science Fiction. A very good copy with light edge wear, light dust soiling to the page edges, in a good dust jacket with edge wear, a few very small chips , dust soiling. See Photos clphE.

8vo. 252 pp. Tan publisher's cloth, red lettering, w/ d.j. pulp cover art of space fighters preparing to draw blasters by Edd Cartier (1914-2008), noted pulp magazine artist who executed over 200 covers, and the memorable cover of Simak's Cosmic Engineers(very minor sunning to spine, slight edgewear), still NF/VG copy. First edition of the author's space opera set against the backdrop of the Solar Combine sending a space expedition to investigate a threat in the territory o the catmen, and the dreaded Loard-vogh. First issued in parts in the pulp Astounding, March-May, 1946.

Condition: very good. 1st UK Edition. 203pp. Small Octavo (approximately 19.5cm tall) in original pinkish red cloth and dust jacket with wear to extremities. very good.

Gnome Press, New York 1949. Stated first edition. 252 pages. Orig. cloth, no dustwrappers. Name on fly leaf. Very good++ with only minor edge wear and wear to boards.

FIRST EDITION. PATTERN FOR CONQUEST, Gnome Press, 1949, first edition, fine in just about fine Cartier dust-wrapper.

Octavo, cloth. First edition. In 333. Mild bump to upper front corner tip, else a fine copy in very good or better dust jacket with 20 mm closed tear at upper edge of front panel and orange ink on spine panel faded to yellow. (#153738).

First Edition. ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION FOR 1946 ALL 12 ISSUES, Street & Smith, first edition, about vg or better copies in full color pictorial wraps with original contributions by: John W. Campbell, Lewis Padgett (THE FAIRY CHESSMEN), Murray Leinster, George O. Smith (PATTERN FOR CONQUEST), Hal Clement, Bertram Chandler, Jack Williamson, Murray Leinster, Frank Belknap Long, Raymond F. Jones (THE TOY MAKER), Theodore Sturgeon, Arthur C. Clarke (RESCUE PARTY), William Tenn (ALEXANDER THE BAIT -his first professional sale), A. E. Van Vogt (THE CHRONICLER), Fredric Brown, Clifford Simak, Anthony Boucher, Isaac Asimov robot tale (EVIDENCE), John D. MacDonald, Eric Frank Russell, et.al.