the hunt for steel pipe

i can't find my oliver wendell holmes' the autocrat

and i can get another

but i got that one for .75cents at a used book store

and it has a cloth like cover and some fine tissue
inside before the opening page
(it says it is a reprint)

but that ain't it for me

whut it do
is
lemme know

a wordslingah was Chief Justice of The United States Supreme Court