What cover did your Jill books have ?

Gingerwitch

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Mine were the 1970 ones, my favourite was the rosettes for Jill with the pink cover.

I never realised how often these were published and how the covers changed over the years.
 

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I must have bought mine in 1968. As soon as I gathered up enough money from doing chores or visiting relatives, I'd dash down to WHSmith and spend ages trying to decide which one to buy next. Happy days.
 

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I must have bought mine in 1968. As soon as I gathered up enough money from doing chores or visiting relatives, I'd dash down to WHSmith and spend ages trying to decide which one to buy next. Happy days.
You sound just like the books... And when I told mummy I had read the first two chapter's, and the middle and the last one she made me go back and buy the book.
 

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I was born in '67 so all my horse paperbacks had the 70's covers. I was a prolific reader as a child and had dozens of horsey paperbacks. Unfortunately I don't have them anymore but I bought second hand copies of Christine Pullein-Thompson's hunting trilogy and re-read them recently. The books are very dated and I did wonder what the children of today would think of them but I loved reading them again. They are the literary equivalent of comfort food.
 

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Mine would've been 60s, I think some had a dragon emblem in the top right hand corner which signified the "difficulty" of the reading. I think the dragons were either blue green or red. I believe the books had a blue border around them.
 

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Born 1970 I had a mix of old hardbacks with covers lost that were my sisters and probably late 70’s early 80’s paperbacks.
I read prolifically as a child 90% being pony books. I still have a lot of them. I’ll root some out later when I’m home.
 

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I've been buying them again and then found some old ones so I have duplicates now. I prefer the older ones as they are the ones I remember reading as a child, with money in pounds, shillings and pence!
 
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