46 pp. Signed volume of poetry from the Austrian writer, wife of pianist Friedrich Wührer. She has inscribed and signed on the half-title to American composer David Diamond and dated 1963. Together with a postcard photograph of Schloss Mühlfeld, the home of the Wührers. Very fine. 4.5 x 6.5 inches (11.4 x 16.4 cm).

From the collection of David Diamond, considered one of the preeminent American composers of his generation. He enjoyed wide success in the 1940's and 1950's, before the serial and modernist trends largely pushed him into the shadows. The New York Times described him as "part of what some considered a forgotten generation of great American symphonists, including Howard Hanson, Roy Harris, William Schuman, Walter Piston and Peter Mennin."