NMLP P-044988 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19
Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me
Richard Fariña · Random House (New York) · 1966
As a pre-1968 Random House book, the first printing is identified by the absence of any later-printing statement on the copyright page and the absence of a number line (Random House number lines began in the 1970s and — counterintuitively — started at '2' for firsts)
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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-044988 for "Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me" by Richard Fariña (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-044988, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).