Edition: Monopoly - Braille Edition
Publisher: Parker Brothers/Kenner Parker Toys Inc. - 1973
Dimensions of the box: 51.5 x 51.5 x 8 cm
                  of the board: 51 x 51 cm
The game:
This edition is from the collection of Bruce Whitehill - D.

It will not surprise you this American edition was the first braille one in the world. Next came the UK edition (1991+1996) and French version (1995). 
Because of the fact the board is a special one-piece board with an attached hard plastic Braille cover, it has to be stored in an accordingly large, plain cardboard box. Of course this American Braille edition is bilingual: English and Braille.

In the middle of the board is Monopoly in closed, black charaters as well as in Braille, parallel to the first side. Under that is the coyright line showing the year 1973.

Other features of this very special edition are:

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Edition: COLLECTOR's edition
Publisher: Franklin Mint - 1992
Dimensions of the table: 7.5 x 52.5 x 52.5 cm + pedestal
The game:
Without exaggeration this "authorized" issue can be called The Games of the Games. The board is made of distinguished mahogany stained hardwood with a green felt-lined sunken midfield. The printing is in gold. Underneath the playfield is a sliding drawer for the banker, also green felt-lined. The drawer has a knob provided with a brass Monopoly game coin. On the other 3 sides of the set is a brass Monopoly plate
The background of the streets is of the same mahogany colour as the wood. Even the instructions and the "Real Estate Portfolio" are in this dignified color.
All 10 classic playing tokens are crafted in pewter and embellished with 22 carat gold,  amongst them a purse and a hurrycane latern.  The architecturally-designed houses and hotels  
are dycast and plated with silver and gold.
Also the banknotes have a luxury appearance and are special made for this Collector's Edition. The number of banknotes is twice as much as usual! But for what reason?
The Chance and Community Chest cards have all funny illustrations with Uncle Pennybags, as usual.
The wooden pedestal for this set contains another 4 drawers for the players to collect their money and property cards. Finally the set can be covered by a glass plate, to protect for dust.

The complete set (game board, pedestal and glas cover) mounted to US$ 940.- in June 1998. Franklin Mint additionally offered not only socalled "Millionaire's Chairs" for a paltry sum of US$ 280.- per set of 2 chairs, but an "Official Monopoly-clock for Millionaires" at the price of US$310.-  as well.

Edition: PLAYER's edition
Publisher: Franklin Mint - 1994
Dimensions of the table: 7.5 x 52.5 x 52.5 cm
The game:
This Player's edition is owned by Steve Kahan - USA.

It must be a very rare version because nor Steve, nor I have ever heard of another copy and even Franklin Mint people could tell anything of this issue on inquiry in 2005. 
Most probably this version has only been published in the USA. (Soon after the discovery of this American edition it was found out a same poor edition to be issued in Germany as well, called "Familien Ausgabe".) 

Next brass nameplate shows this edition to be from 1994 or later, so it cannot be a precursor but rather a successor of the Collector's edition.

                                                                                      It is a poorer issue, shown a.o. by:

    On the other hand: 

This copy is without a pedestal, nor a glass cover or Millionair's chairs.

Edition: The Heirloom Limited Edition
Publisher: Parker Brothers - 1997
Dimensions of the box: 27 x 27 x 11 cm
The game:
Everything about this game oozes quality. This set comes in a mahogany stained solid wood cabinet (in a dark green outer cardboard box) with a hinged lid and a lift-out tray inside, all felt-lined. There is a solid brass medallion inlaid into the top of the box.
There is a game log to record your games in. However, this is a bit silly as it is only one single sheet of paper in a folder. A little book would have been much better! A special velvet bag is to hold the dice and 11 "gold" tokens.
A felt-lined banker's tray contains 7 compartments for the money, and separate compartments for the wooden houses and hotels. The very nice banknotes have all the same colour and the Heirloom emblem in the centre. Lift out the wooden banker's tray and the bottom layer contains the coloured Chance and Community Chest cards, the Title Deed cards, the money and the cards carousel. All the cards are specially printed, and have a shiny finish. Underneath the Title Deed carousel are 7 gold coins of different sizes. One coin for each money value.
The board folds into 4 and has a much better and thicker appearance than the standard board. The centre shows the very special gold Heirloom emblem. The back of the board is dark green. It is an exact fit in the top of the banker's tray.
Underneath the board is a special copy of the rules, which is dark green with the gold emblem on the outside. The rules are printed in colour, with lots of coloured cartoons.

The set also contained a form for a brass plate with your name on it, to stick to the lid of the box.

The price amounted to US$ 105.- + US$ 5.- for the brass name plate in June 1998.

Edition: Michael Graves Design Edition, No.40889
Publisher: Parker Brothers/Target Corp. - 2002
Dimensions of the box: 27 x 27 x 11 cm
The game:
This very particular edition is from the collection of Mike McGuire - USA.

It is a heavy and solid wooden box (with a coin with Grave's signature sticked at the bottom) with turn over game board and a small pull-out "banker's tray". It is solidly packed in a non-Monopoly-like blue cardboard box.
In the tray is a square rubber piece with 6 preshaped holes for the silvery Michael Graves designed tokens: teacup - teapot - clock - mixer - telephone and a toaster.
The small (54x60 mm) property deeds have an illustration of the special houses on their back side. The Chance-  and  Community Chest cards are even smaller (37x62 mm) than those of the Nostalgia edition.
The remarkable small and long (43x96mm) banknotes can be placed in the slots of the partitions. There are 2 little dark blue pouches supplied to store the very special Michael Graves design houses and "hotels" in. The 2  dice (10x10x10 mm) are ivory with black pips.
The Rules are in a simple, not illustrated booklet.

Michael Graves is an internationally renowened professor of architecture at Princeton University and president of the successful architectural firm that bears his name. A different circle of fans celebrates his collection of aesthetically pleasing household objects and games, many of them designed especially for Target Corporation, a chain of discount stores.

One of his designs is the housing of the Dutch Department of Health and Human Services in The Hague - NL. This building of 104 m height with its steep roofs is popularly called "The two tits". The picture shows why the hotels in Michael Grave's Monopoly are tall, red stoned buildings with small windows and steep roofs.

The whole edition was "Made in China".

The price of this set amounted to US$ 50.- in Januari 2005.