Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me
by Farina, Richard
Fariña evokes the Sixties as precisely, wittily, and poignantly as F. Scott Fitzgerald captured the Jazz Age. The hero, Gnossus Pappadopoulis, weaves his way through the psychedelic landscape, encountering—among other things—mescaline, women, art, gluttony, falsehood, science, prayer, and, occasionally, truth. A portrait of an explosive decade, sparkling with inventive writing and conveying the essence of a generation, Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me, as Thomas Pynchon writes in the introduction, "comes on like the Hallelujah Chorus done by 200 kazoo players with perfect pitch."
"A marvelous storyteller, Fariña is fit to join the company of Kerouac, Kesey, and Pynchon." —San Francisco Chronicle
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BEEN DOWN SO LONG IT LOOKS LIKE UP TO ME
by Farina, Richard
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New York: Random House, 1966. Stated First Printing. Hardcover. Good Only. Octavo. Green cloth binding over blue-gray boards with black, yellow and white arrow design to front. Rubbing soiling, some spotting to extremities. Spine lean. Reading copy of this classic mid-sixties narrative of late Beat-ish artistic culture.
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NY: Random House. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth-backed boards, black topstain. Stated first printing. Hint of sunning to top edge, faint toning to endpages, tiny insect nibble to cloth at rear endpage, and one tiny bump to bottom edge. Unmarked, tight and square. The DJ in mylar is slightly soiled… Read more about this item Item Price
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Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me
by Richard Farina
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Been Down so Long it Looks Like Up to Me
by Farina, Richard
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New York: Random House, 1966. Nice copy of first printing with First Edition statement on copyright page. Unmarked, tight and square. Quarter bound in green cloth over blue paper covered boards with 4 colors on spine and top board. Black topstain still fresh. Clean, bright and fresh. Neatly price clipped jacket is surprisingly fresh… Read more about this item Item Price
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New York: Random House, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Very Good in a Good jacket, unclipped ($5.95), generally soiled, multiple tears and chips to the edges. Quarter green cloth with blue paper on the boards, faded at the edges. Bound with some reading wear and a forward lean, dark blue top stain, clean internally. Farina's picaresque novel… Read more about this item Item Price
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1968. 4. Auflage, Harmondsworth, Dell (= Dell 0514), 1968, 8°, 284 S., Rundumgrünschnitt, Text: englisch, farbig illustr. original Kartonage (Paperback), Einband an den Buchrückenkanten minimal beschabt und unten an vorderer Buchrückenkante mit ca. 1cm Anriss, zwei zarte Längsfalten auf Buchrücken, sonst schönes, sauberes Exemplar. Richard Fariña (1937 - 1966) - hier das Meisterwerk des viel zu früh verstorbenen amerikanischen… Read more about this item Item Price
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Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me
by Farina, Richard
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Random House, 1966-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Stated first printing. Hardcover w/dust jacket (in mylar). Jacket is price-clipped & sun-bleached. Spine print is slightly off-center. Gift-inscribed on ffep. Short note (in ink) on one page. Thanks for looking! Item Price
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Been Down so Long it Looks like up to Me
by FARINA, RICHARD
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New York: Random House, 1966. Book. Near Fine. Cloth & Boards. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Quarter green cloth with lettereing in black yellow and white over blue boards. Wrapped in decorative dust jacket. Farina's first book and only one published while he was alive. Blurb on front flap from Thomas Pynchon who was a… Read more about this item Item Price
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Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me
by Richard Farina
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- 1971
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New York: Dell Publishing Company, Inc., 1971. VG+. Very good plus soft cover. Stated FIRST 0514 NEW DELL edition, February 1971. A nice clean copy with a little shelf wear, mainly due to a small amount of chaffing in upper left front corner due to previous sticker removal and a bit of a scuff at the top… Read more about this item Item Price
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Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me
by Richard Farina
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Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me
by Farina, Richard
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Penguin Books, 1987. New introduction by Thomas Pynchon. Nice copy. Reprint. Paperback. Very Good. Item Price
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Been Down So Long it Looks LIke Up to Me
by Richard Farina
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- 1966
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Random House, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First printing stated. 8vo in 1/4 green cloth, title and devices in navy, yellow and white, top edge stained black, $5.95 price on the front flap of the dustjacket, Pynchon blurb on the rear flap. Binding tight and square, very light shelf wear. The dustjacket has a… Read more about this item Item Price
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Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me
by Farina, Richard
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Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me, Random House, 1966, first edition, upper right corner of the spine and upper left corner tip of the rear cover tip gently bumped, else a fine bright copy in like full color pictorial dust-wrapper with just a bit of wear to the head of the dust-wrapper spine. The authors… Read more about this item Item Price
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Been Down so Long it Looks like Up to Me: A Novel
by Richard Farina
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- 1966
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New York, NY: Random House. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1966. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+ in Very Good DJ: The book shows only the most minute indications of use: a mall bit of address-label residue at the upper corner of the front free endpaper; else flawless - if not 'fresh'; the binding… Read more about this item Item Price
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Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me
by Farina, Richard
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- 7th
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- 1969
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East Lansing, Michigan, USA
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New York: Dell Publishing. Good+ with no dust jacket; Some shelfwear, ink on back cover, pages . yellowing, corners creased.. 1969. 7th. Paperback. 12mo; 269 pages . Item Price
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Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me
by Farina, Richard
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- 1966
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San Francisco, California, USA
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£242.85
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New York, NY: Random House, Inc., 1966. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 329 pages, 8vo. Stated First Printing. Jacket price clipped. Blurb by Thomas Pynchon on inside rear flap. Chalk blue cloth boards with bright green cloth spine, black, yellow and white lettering and arrows, top page edge stained black. Shelfwear to DJ: light scuffing along edges and covers.… Read more about this item Item Price
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by Farin~a, Richard
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- 1966
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Random House, 1966. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket missing. Second printing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Wear and minor fading on the boards. Stain on the top… Read more about this item Item Price
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Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me
by Farin~a, Richard
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- 1966
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- Hardcover
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Seattle, Washington, USA
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Random House, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket missing. First edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Boards slightly bowed, betray fading and nicks and other… Read more about this item Item Price
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