Pattern Conquest by Smith George (66 results)

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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.…

Condition: New. In English.

Condition: Good. 1951. 203 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. …

PF. Condition: New.

Condition: New. In English.

Condition: New.

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.…

Condition: New.

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. …

Condition: New.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

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.…

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: Good/NO DUSTJACKET. New York, NY: Gnome Press. Good/NO DUSTJACKET. 1949. . Hardcover. 8vo., 252pp., Shelf wear; foxing on top edge; pages clean and unmarked . Not Illustrated (illustrator).

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: New. In English.

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: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. 1st Edition. VG/VG dj; now in archival Brodart. Minor rubbing to jacket, slight damp stain to tan cloth lower front cover and same on lower inside flap of dj - does not affect interior pages. Small, 1/4" tear to back jacket. From the collection and estate of noted SF/F/H & comic collector Kennett Neily - owner of the White Mountain Comic Collection - with his name and date of purchase, June 28, 1955 to ffep. Edd Cartier (illustrator).…

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

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).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Story & Significance 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.…