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1930. Bailey, L. H. and Ethel Zoe Bailey. RUS: A Biographical Register of Rural Leadership. - A 1930 edition of the biographical reference work RUS: A Biographical Register of Rural Leadership in the United States and Canada, compiled by L. H. Bailey and Ethel Zoe Bailey. This volume is identified on the copyright page as the fourth issue. The book is bound in the original tan buckram cloth with black stamped titles and a decorative border featuring agricultural scythe motifs on the front cover. The spine features the title RUS, four stars arranged in a square, and the date 1930 between parallel black lines. The interior contains a printed title page stating the work was published in Ithaca, New York, in October 1930. The copyright page specifies that the copyright was held by L. H. Bailey and the text was printed by the Mason Printing Corporation of Syracuse and New York. The content consists of an alphabetical biographical register of individuals involved in rural and agricultural leadership, including academics, farmers, and government officials. The endpapers contain period handwritten pencil marginalia consisting of various subtraction calculations used to determine ages, such as 1945 minus 1873 equals 72. The cloth binding shows light shelf wear with minor fraying and softening at the spine ends and corners (photo 3). There is light surface staining and general handling soil to the tan cloth covers (photo 1). The internal pages exhibit typical age-toning but remain clean and legible (photos 6, 7, and 8). The front endpaper contains several handwritten pencil calculations (photo 9). No dust jacket is present.