NMLP P-044991 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-19

Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me

Richard Fariña · Random House (New York) · 1966

Later Penguin paperback and subsequent reprints are not firsts; no separate book-club hardcover is documented as matching or preceding the Random House first. The 1966 Random House hardcover in the Eric Von Schmidt pictorial jacket is the collected first.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-044991 for "Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me" by Richard Fariña (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-044991, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).