Folder 85
The Columbia House Scarborough address - the discriminator, the same one that carries folders 60, 73 and 83.
Every line below was read off a native-resolution crop of the photograph named beside it.
The case as it arrived: a hand-annotated seller's card laid over the inlay, reading CANADA / m/m / MISPRESS in ballpoint and red ink
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Inlay front and spine: C4-590258 over 788059C, IRON MAIDEN / SEVENTH SON OF A SEVENTH SON and a Dolby HX PRO device
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Inlay rear panel: the eight titles, EXPANDED DYNAMIC RANGE, the Capitol Records roundel and an EMI logo, with no barcode
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Inlay inner panels: the band photograph over the personnel list, then the wise-man illustration and the credits block
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Inlay lyric panels: the printed lyrics across the fold
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Inlay foot, distributor block: Distributed by Columbia House/Distribué par Columbia House, 815 Middlefield Road, Scarborough, Ontario, M1V 3M3, Under License From Capitol Records, Inc., beside C4-590258 and © 1988 Iron Maiden (Publishing) Ltd.
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Shell, side 1: clear plastic printed in white - the Capitol Records roundel, SIDE ONE over MOONCHILD • INFINITE DREAMS • CAN I PLAY WITH MADNESS • THE EVIL THAT MEN DO, IRON MAIDEN / SEVENTH SON OF A SEVENTH SON and C4 590258
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Shell, side 2: the same printing, SIDE TWO with the four side-two titles
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CANADA and m/m in black ballpoint with MISPRESS stamped in red, loose in the case. Provenance only: it records what a seller believed, not what the object shows.788059C on the spine - Discogs' recorded Columbia House number for 9550342.SIDE ONE / SIDE TWO listings - checked against the album's running order at native resolution because of the seller's MISPRESS note. They read correctly: MOONCHILD • INFINITE DREAMS • CAN I PLAY WITH MADNESS • THE EVIL THAT MEN DO and the four side-two titles. No printing error is present on this shell.MISPRESS claim is not evidence. If it refers to the recorded audio it cannot be judged from photographs at all, and nothing in the printing supports it. Recorded, attributed and left there.C4-590258 - the match axis, returning a US row and a Canadian one.Bruce Dickinson - vocals · Dave Murray - lead and rhythm guitar · Adrian Smith - lead and rhythm guitar, synth · Steve Harris - bass, string synth · Nicko McBrain - drums.
Produced, engineered and mixed by Martin Birch. Mastered by George Marino at Sterling Sound, New York. Recorded at Musicland Studios, Munich. Sleeve illustration, concept and design by Derek Riggs (with Rod Smallwood). Inner-sleeve photograph by Ross Halfin. Published by Zomba Music Publishers Ltd.
Personnel and studio credits are sourced from Discogs release 576952, the UK original, and apply to the recording rather than to this pressing. The producer, publisher and copyright lines are independently corroborated by this copy's own label, quoted above.
A photograph cannot grade a record - this is a description of what is visible, not a grade.
Nothing on this page comes from playing the record. No Goldmine grade is claimed for it, or any other. I have no record of where this copy came from.
Settled on the distributor line, with one claim deliberately left unresolved. The identification is straightforward and matches the other three Columbia House copies on this shelf.
The interesting part is the loose card a previous seller left in the case: CANADA, m/m, and MISPRESS in red. That is a third party's assertion about the object and the method here does not treat assertions as evidence. It was still worth a check, so the shell's printed side listings were cropped at native resolution and read against the album's running order - and they are correct, with no misprint. If the claim refers to the audio rather than the printing, a photograph cannot settle it.
So the card is recorded as provenance, the check that it prompted is recorded with its result, and no grade rests on either.
Standing caveat: a club pressing absent from Discogs cannot be excluded.