Pattern for Conquest: An Interplanetary Adventure

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Overview:

Title: Pattern for Conquest: An Interplanetary Adventure
Author: George O. Smith
Year: 1952
Publisher: Gnome Press
Price: $0.35
Pages: 252
Binding: Trade Paperback
Type: Novel
Title Reference: Pattern for Conquest
Notes:
- "Armed Forces" edition.
- No price on book; price per Tuck, which gives the date as 1949.
- Currey lists this as a circa 1952 reprint of the 1949 first edition with the first edition statement maintained on the copyright page.
- Chalker and Owings in The Science-Fantasy Publishers state that this is a 1952 binding of 2,000 leftover copies of the original run of 5,000 sheets printed for the 1949 edition. They further give the source of their information as Greenberg and Kyle (the publishers).
- Cover art is the same as on the 1949 hardcover, credited to Edd Cartier.