Not 100% sure, but my best guess would be to follow the regular npm syntax for installing a specific version. The official Joplin instructions say:
NPM_CONFIG_PREFIX=~/.joplin-bin npm install -g joplin
sudo ln -s ~/.joplin-bin/bin/joplin /usr/bin/joplin
To see all possible versions of the joplin package, we can do:
npm view joplin versions
[ '0.8.40',
'0.8.68',
...
'1.0.149',
'1.0.150',
'1.0.151',
'1.0.152',
'1.0.153',
'1.0.154',
'1.0.155',
'1.0.156',
'1.0.157',
'1.0.158',
'1.0.159',
'1.0.160',
'1.0.161',
'1.0.162',
'1.0.163',
'1.0.164' ]
Now, we have to simply specify a version (see this Stack Overflow page):
NPM_CONFIG_PREFIX=~/.joplin-bin npm install -g joplin@1.0.150
sudo ln -s ~/.joplin-bin/bin/joplin /usr/bin/joplin
Haven’t actually tried it, my best advice, please let me know if it works or not.