# Is "Connolly 'The Modern Movement' reference framing" by Cyril Connolly a First Edition?

> **Quick answer.** A first edition of Connolly 'The Modern Movement' reference framing by Cyril Connolly (André Deutsch / Hamish Hamilton, 1965) is identified by: Framing entry for the list itself, not a book to collect for points here. The list is a guide, not a book to collect for points here.

**Checklist — a true first has these:**
- Framing entry for the list itself, not a book to collect for points here
- Connolly's 'The Modern Movement: One Hundred Key Books from England, France and America, 1880-1950'
- is the canonical modern-firsts checklist
- The English-language high spots drawn from it and catalogued separately include James 'The Portrait of a Lady'
- , Conrad 'Youth'
- and 'The Secret Agent'
- Publisher imprint reads André Deutsch / Hamish Hamilton

| | |
|---|---|
| Author | Cyril Connolly |
| Publisher | André Deutsch / Hamish Hamilton |
| Year | 1965 |
| True first | UK edition |
| Format | Hardcover (trade) |
| Key point | Framing entry for the list itself, not a book to collect for points here |
| Book-club edition exists? | — |

## Points of issue
Framing entry for the list itself, not a book to collect for points here. Connolly's 'The Modern Movement: One Hundred Key Books from England, France and America, 1880-1950' (1965) is the canonical modern-firsts checklist. The English-language high spots drawn from it and catalogued separately include James 'The Portrait of a Lady' (1881), Conrad 'Youth' (1902) and 'The Secret Agent' (1907), Joyce 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' (1916), 'Ulysses' (1922) and 'Finnegans Wake' (1939), Lawrence 'Sons and Lovers' (1913) and 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' (1928), Eliot 'Prufrock' (1917), 'The Waste Land' (1922) and 'Four Quartets', Forster 'A Passage to India' (1924), Woolf 'To the Lighthouse' (1927) and 'The Waves' (1931), Fitzgerald 'The Great Gatsby' (1925) and 'Tender Is the Night' (1934), Hemingway 'In Our Time' (1925), 'The Sun Also Rises' (1926) and 'A Farewell to Arms' (1929), Faulkner 'Sanctuary' (1931), Waugh 'Decline and Fall' (1928), Huxley 'Brave New World' (1932), Orwell 'Animal Farm' (1945) and 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' (1949), Greene 'The Power and the Glory' (1940) and Koestler 'Darkness at Noon' (1940). French titles (Proust, Gide, Camus, Sartre, Celine) belong in a French-firsts slice.

## Is this the true first?
The list is a guide, not a book to collect for points here. The individual English-language entries carry their own true-first notes. French and UK-vs-US precedence is title-specific.

## Telling it from reprints & book-club editions
Framing entry only. Included so the orchestrator can confirm the Connolly canon is mined for its modern high spots. Deduplicate against the individual title entries and route French-language titles elsewhere.

## Source
New Mexico Literacy Project — Is *Connolly 'The Modern Movement' reference framing* by Cyril Connolly a first edition? https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/connolly-the-modern-movement-reference-framing
CC BY 4.0. Part of the Canonical First-Edition Points of Issue dataset (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/api/first-edition-titles.json). Last reviewed 2026-07-04.