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Title: The Abalone Song

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Title: The Abalone Song Title Record # 2374932
Authors: George Sterling and unknown
Date: 1920-00-00
Type: POEM
Language: English
Note: According to The Abalone King of Monterey by Tim Thomas, this song was written around 1907 by a group of friends including George Sterling, Opal Heron Search (a musician who may have created the overall form of the song, although many others contributed verses), Gelet Burgess, Mary Austin, Sinclair Lewis, Ambrose Bierce, and others not named in this source although they are mostly identifiable from manuscripts. Sterling had a compilation of verses privately printed for his friends in 1920.
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2017This is exactly the way the poem is credited, both in the toc and at the top of the poem. There is no clue as to whom the other authors might be.
The Abalone Song [as by George Sterling, et al.]

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Skelos, #2, Winter 2017 2017-00-00 ed. Mark Finn, Chris Gruber, Jeffrey Shanks Skelos Press 978-0-9987010-0-4
$14.95?$: US dollar
200
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
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