NMLP P-044987 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me

Richard Fariña · Random House (New York) · 1966

The true first is the US Random House edition of 1966 (329 pp.), quarter-bound in green cloth over pale-blue/blue-gray boards, the spine lettered in black, yellow, and white, with a pictorial dust jacket illustrated by Eric Von Schmidt and priced at the front flap

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-044987 for "Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me" by Richard Fariña (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-044987, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).