The Fischer King's Gambit by IM Timothy Taylor

I would ask Timothy. Last I heard he had 3 left but that was a while ago. I am sure if he has a copy he will sell it to you. 

Thanks.  He replied quickly, saying that he's selling the last three for $1000 each.

Oy.

Ermm...that's just BS (on his part, not yours).  If there were actually any kind of demand for it that would warrant $1000 for the last 3 copies, the publisher would jump on the chance to do another print run.

Or for that matter, he could do another print run himself.

I work in publishing myself (in a completely different field), and in fifteen years, I've never seen a book get to the page proof stage and not get published. 

From the other thread, the editor's responses seem quite reasonable.  Mistakes creep into the proofs all the time.  Fixing them is what proofs are for.  I still don't understand why the author didn't just do that.  Meanwhile, the publisher would have had every incentive to make the book happen, after having surely invested hundreds of hours and well well over $10,000 in the editing, design, and typesetting at that point.  I'm baffled as to why they didn't, but the situation must have gotten very bad indeed for them to just let it go like that.  And that's a loss for everyone -- the publisher, the author, and all of us who want to see a fresh analysis of the Bishop's Gambit.

Yikes. Maybe he will keep you in mind and sell it to you for the regular price as I do not think anyone will buy them for that.

The book itself was self-published so it's not up to the publisher to reprint but Tim himself.  He did have a backer so he could print the first run. Maybe he will do a second run in PB lowering the cost?  

While I've been googling this, I came across a listing for another King's Gambit book that seems not to have been published, by Jonathan Tait himself in fact:

https://www.amazon.com/Kings-Gambit-Uncensored-Jonathan-Tait/dp/1857444302

Might I entice the author (who appears upthread) to say anything about what became of it?

I never finished it.

So it goes.  Alas.

I think you should.

As things have turned out, other work published since - not least John Shaw's book - would have rendered mine pretty much irrelevant.

I do have things to say about a few lines though, not least 2 f4 exf4 3 Nf3 h5, which may indeed be forthcoming

Shaw's book is wonderful, of course.  But it would be awfully nice for it not to be the only big, comprehensive KG book out there in the modern world.  Oh well, somebody, some day.

And great to hear you may have a small piece coming out.

I know Joop. He actually got this line from me

Yes, 7 Qe2 can be very dangerous, not least because of the plan of 8 Bd2, 9 0-0-0 and 10 g3. If White gets to play that undisturbed, Black's game just falls apart, which means there's no time for a "standard" set-up (...c7-c6, ...Be7, ...Nd7, etc). Instead, one possibility is 7...Bh6, intending 8 Bd2 g4 9 Ng1 Nc6, targeting White's weak spot (d4). Similarly, 8 g3 Nc6 (e.g. 9 Qf2 hxg3 10 hxg3 g4 11 Nh4 f3). Or if 8 e5 then 8...Kf8 (and 9 0-0 Bg4). Or 8 h3 (giving up on g2-g3) 8...Ne7 (taking control of d5 again). Black's position looks very suspicious – it always looks suspicious; I mean, 3...h5, come on! – but it's surprisingly resilient.