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Book by Wakan, Naomi Beth
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- PublisherPacific Rim Pub
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 0921358024
- ISBN 13 9780921358022
- BindingPaperback
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Japanese - An Appetizer: Introducing the Japanese Language
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Pacific Rim Pub
(1990)
ISBN 10: 0921358024
ISBN 13: 9780921358022
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Softcover
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Book Description Condition: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc. Seller Inventory # 00038343959
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Japanese-an appetizer (Only Signed Copy)
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Pacific-Rim Publishers, Victoria, British Columbia
(1990)
ISBN 10: 0921358024
ISBN 13: 9780921358022
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Soft cover
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Cartoons and Illustrations by Naomi Wakan (illustrator). 1st Edition. In English (with some Japanese). Apparent First Edition (NAP). Naomi Wakan has written quite a large number of books but has very rarely signed any of them. No signed copy of this book is for sale anywhere on the Internet. Until now. The signed inscription is on the half-title page. It reads: 'To Justin, with good wishes, Naomi Beth Wakan, 2006.' The book is in very nice condition. You can see the covers in the photos. They have very little wear. There is a tiny tan spot off the top edge of the rear cover. The book is very solidly bound from cover to cover with nicely tight pages and nicely tight covers as well. The front and rear end papers are red. They're perfectly clean and in very good condition. The pages are in excellent condition. I'm not finding any creasing. There is a tiny tan spot on the top page edge. That's what has created the little tan spot off the top edge of the rear cover, and it can be seen just peeking over the top edge of many the pages in an even tinier size, not much larger than a speck. Otherwise, the pages are perfectly clean. I didn't see any soiling. There are no markings. There are no attachments. And the signed inscription is the only writing to be found anywhere in the book. 'In 2013, Naomi Wakan was appointed the first Poet Laureate of Nanaimo. A verse by the inaugural poet laureate was installed outside the Port Theatre in the spring of 2017, the first stone in the city's new poetry walk. As a poet laureate, Wakan initiated a Poetry in Transit program (poems gracing Nanaimo buses) and created the Nanaimo Poetry Map and a high school poetry competition. Born in London, England, Naomi Wakan was introduced to works of George Bernard Shaw and the Fabian socialists by her older sisters by the time she was seven. She graduated with a degree in Social Work from Birmingham University. She immigrated to Canada in 1954 and brought her family up in Toronto. She worked as a psychotherapist, specializing in early childhood traumas. She came to Vancouver in 1982. She remarried to the sculptor, Elias Wakan, and traveled extensively including living two years in Japan, a stay that began with a two-week holiday. During their two years teaching ESL in Japan, they took 6,000 slides. Upon returning to Canada, they were pleased to discover Japan had been introduced into the B.C. Ministry of Education Grade 6 Curriculum. They developed a series of slide shows on Japan and Peru, also a Grade 6 subject. The couple formed a small publishing house, Pacific-Rim Publishers, to produce educational books, many of which Naomi wrote and illustrated. Their first title was Food in Peru with a print run of 100 copies. It eventually sold 1,000 copies. They produced 23 unsubsidized titles, the last being Telling Tales on the Rim. Wakan and her husband moved to Gabriola in 1996 and opened a studio, Drumbeg House Studio, where he makes wood sculpture and Naomi Wakan paints, writes and does fabric art as a member of Gabriola Fibre Artists. Wakan has moved from writing books geared to children to books for adults, including Haiku -One Breath Poetry. Her essays and poetry have appeared in Resurgence, Geist, Room of One's Own, Kansai Time Out and Far East Journal. Her advice to emerging writers past the age of fifty, Late Bloomer: On Writing Later in Life, was followed by personal essays about her literary life, Compositions: Notes on the Written Word, and a summary of her reading habit over the course of one year, Book Ends: A Year Between the Covers (Poplar Press, 2010).'. Inscribed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 004673
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