MELMAN, Peter Charles: Landsman – A Novel. New York, Counterpoint Press, 2007. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Hardcover with dust jacket, 323 pp. Subject: Novel / Fiction & Literature / U.S. Civil War (1861-1865) / Jews and the Confederacy. Book and jacket condition: Very Good. Some evidence of light edgewear to extremities of jacket and book copy (particularly at the bottom of the spine). Otherwise a copy in more than decent and near-fine condition. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON THE TITLE PAGE. Riveting debut novel of the Civil War “is the page-turning story of Elias Abrams – orphaned bastard of an indentured Jewish immigrant – who flees his sordid New Orleans gangland home to enlist in the Third Louisiana Infantry, leaving behind a murder that threatens to unravel his world...” ISBN: 9781582433677