Iron Maiden Tourbook value to collectors

Maiden10_0

Maiden10_0

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As a collector of tourbooks of mainly Maiden and KISS since the seventies, I have a question to ask everyone here that collects them as well.

I just recently had the opportunity to complete my personal collection of Maiden tour books. I have SIT, Powerslave, FF, SBIT, and the Maiden England 2013 poster thing... I just purchased a 1988 7th son of a 7rh son tourbook, blue cover version and I wound up paying 118.00 usd for it. I usually expect to spend anywhere from 40 to 60 bucks for this type of thing and obviously I paid more, but is this book really that rare or valuable to the regular collector. Just being curious. I'm happy with my purchase because it completes my collection. I attended the '88 show in New Orleans and didn't get the book then... That was my first and only time seeing them live until Houston of last year! Thanks in advance for any input!
 
The only tour programmes I have seen go for that kind of money are the Japanese ones, with the extra pages and photos, but all text in Japanese - obviously. The Killer tour one and Beast on the Road also have different covers to their European and US counterparts. The Blaze ones and Ed Hunter are also very expensive and hard to come by.
Do you have those as well?

I'm not sure how rare the one you bought is, I guess it depends on who you ask.
Sometimes people are willing to pay more than you'd think. Just see ebay ;)
 
desultory said:
The only tour programmes I have seen go for that kind of money are the Japanese ones, with the extra pages and photos, but all text in Japanese - obviously. The Killer tour one and Beast on the Road also have different covers to their European and US counterparts. The Blaze ones and Ed Hunter are also very expensive and hard to come by.
Do you have those as well?

I'm not sure how rare the one you bought is, I guess it depends on who you ask.
Sometimes people are willing to pay more than you'd think. Just see ebay ;)
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The only books of Maiden that I have are Powerslave tour, SIT 86, SBIT 08 (folded poster), FF 29 page book, Maiden England '13 poster/booklet, and now this 7th tour of a 7th tour 88. These are the only eras that I really enjoy. The '88 show was my first time seeing them live so it's special. Ironically, the only time I've been able to see them since was last year in Houston for the Maiden England show. They haven't been back to New Orleans since '88!
As far as the tourbooks go, from what I understand is there are two from 1988. One with a blue cover for the first half of the tour which included North America, and a black covered book for the middle to end of the tour in Europe.
eBay seems to have a ton of older books from 81 thru 87 ramgimg from 39 to 149 US dollars. There seems to be an abundance of SIT books that are fairly priced around the 40 dollar range. I guess I lucked out because I paid 25 for my Powerslave and 35 for my SIT books from the 80's. I've only seen two 7th tour books on there over the past few months. The blue one that I just bought (they originally wanted 130 for it) and they currently have the black cover for 100 bucks. I'm just curious to see if that's about the going rate for those books and are they indeed considered rare or not? I haven't found them anywhere else cheaper or in stock. I just find it odd that there are numerous tourbooks listed for every single tour for fair prices and this particular tour seems very scarce! Maybe because of the interest of the Maiden England tour that just finished?
 
I have both of the 7th tour books that you mention i.e. the blue and the black cover. From memory they cost me around US$25 - back in 1988 :-)

I don't think that they are rare as such, the 7th Tour was very successful, so there should be plenty of them about (as opposed to the Blaze-era books, hence their current price tag).

I have all of the tour books with the exception of the X-Factour (not the Japanese editions though). They are great items to collect!
 
evil_ash said:
I have both of the 7th tour books that you mention i.e. the blue and the black cover. From memory they cost me around US$25 - back in 1988 :)

I don't think that they are rare as such, the 7th Tour was very successful, so there should be plenty of them about (as opposed to the Blaze-era books, hence their current price tag).

I have all of the tour books with the exception of the X-Factour (not the Japanese editions though). They are great items to collect!
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Thanks for the info! The cheapest I've found the black cover 7th tourbook is about $100 bucks. The blue one was $118!
Could you tell me what are the differences between the blue cover and black cover? I've heard that the black cover was used for the European leg of the tour and was sort of a "thank you" to European fans for all their support. Are the pictures the same in each and if not which is the nicer one between them?

Thanks!
 
They are totally different from each other. The blue one came first, and is quite text-heavy, with a lot of interesting information. The black one came after the Donington '88 show, has only a couple of pages of text, and totally different photos from the earlier tour programme.

I like them both equally - the blue one is much better from an information/story perspective (one of their best in fact), whereas the layout and look is the strength of the black one.

There is also the Donington '88 programme as well - it is excellent too. try to get all three to have a very nice set :-)
 
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