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.