CIDER FROM EDEN (331 pp.)—Nancy Bruff—Duff on ($2.75). Sultry, sensuous Chloe Delaplain, 18, flew into a rage. “Obscene—obscene picador,” she screamed that day in 1875, in a voice that shook the ...

Nancy Bruff , whose best-selling historical novel about Nantucket, “The Manatee,” has been advertised in a rather personal way (”A strange contrast—this demure, gentle daughter of old New England and ...

What makes a best-seller sell—its own worth or somebody else’s salesmanship? Last week E. P. Button & Co., Inc. hoped that it had the answer. Last year it received a manuscript from tall, red-blonde, ...