Through the Gates Into the City: A Metropolis, A Seminary and a Chapel by Boggs, Timothy A - 2007

New York: The General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church, 2007. SIGNED 2007 Edition. FINE in FINE dust jacket. Signed in black ink on title page by both the author and photographer: "With love! Bruce" and "For Horace - with joy. Tim." An otherwise unmarked copy, pages fresh and fine as is the blue cloth hardcover. Binding and hinges tight and straight. Color pictorial dust jacket is clean, no scuffs, tears, chips or creases. The history of nineteenth-century struggle within the Episcopal Church to develop a thriving and rigorous general seminary in the heart of urban America, and the building of the of the beautiful Chapel of the Good Shepherd, whose 130-foot bell tower remains a landmark in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood. Illustrated with beautiful color photographs. 8 x 10-1/2". 96 pages. Signed by Author and Photographer. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Parker, Bruce.