Various, Various, (1930-2005). In his introduction to Ken Lopez Bookseller's Nature Writing catalog, in 2000, Barry Lopez listed the nature writers (widely defined) that had "resonated" with him. Not surprisingly, the list is lengthy (Crane, Cather, Steinbeck, Carson, and Matthiessen, amid dozens of others), but he concludes, "And through it all, the linchpin for me was [Melville's] Moby Dick. Offered here is Barry Lopez's personal collection of copies of Moby Dick, which includes a dozen foreign language editions and three English language editions, including the now-classic 1930 Random House edition with illustrations by Rockwell Kent, but the highlight is a well-used Houghton Mifflin/Riverside paperback edition from 1950. This copy has Lopez's signed bookplate, two 3x5 cards laid in with his notes, and his notes throughout. As an example, on page 99, in the margin of the Melville sentence "Glimpses do ye seem to see of that mortally intolerable truth; that all deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of the sea; while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore?", Lopez has penned, "Somewhat the heart of the matter." Different pens used throughout, as though with different readings; also perhaps, an additional hand at work in the text as well. A very good copy. The "linchpin" for one of our most earnest and intrepid, and dearly missed, nature writers. [#035874] SOLD