NMLP P-044989 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me

Richard Fariña · Random House (New York) · 1966

Correction to the census note: the author's death two days after publication does NOT 'fix a single true printing' — the 1966 Random House hardcover is the true FIRST printing, but the book became a cult classic and was reprinted many times (later hardcover printings and the Penguin paperback)

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-044989 for "Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me" by Richard Fariña (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-044989, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).