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1860 G. H. Lewes Let. 4 Jan. in ‘G. Eliot’ Lett. (1954) III. 243 It will be well now to begin announcing it in lists—if not the title at any rate the fact of a new novel being in the press.

1919 Publisher's Let. Aug. in T. S. Eliot Waste Land Drafts (1971) p. xvi Mr. Eliot's work is no doubt brilliant, but it is not exactly the kind of material we care to add to our list.

1922 T. S. Eliot Let. 25 June in Waste Land Drafts (1971) p. xxii Knopf said that it was too late for his autumn list this year.

1930 E. Waugh Vile Bodies ii. 28 I suppose you could get the book rewritten in time for the Spring List?

1938 H. R. Dent in J. M. & H. R. Dent House of Dent xxiii. 300 It used to be said..that a publisher kept poetry on his lists more for the look of the thing than anything else.

1951 M. Sharp Lise Lillywhite xix. 161 Mr Villiers..published chiefly poetry... He had no list, in the trade sense, nor had he travellers.

1964 R. Church Voy. Home viii. 166 I should send the book to the house of Dent, whose list it would suit admirably.

1967 E. Grierson Crime of one's Own viii. 60 Christmas operated like a guillotine on the Autumn lists, leaving only a bare four weeks of selling time.