Bidding on a book

I tried to get a book on Ebay some time back but lost out. The book came out in 1986 and I first heard about in in probably about 1992 or 1993 and have been after it ever since. I've got an earlier edition of the same book but I want this one. I'm not giving the name of the book as
a) I don't want anyone guessing my Ebay user id
b) I don't want anyone else bidding against me

It closes in about 9 hours time. I don't normalyl make any bids until the final minute of an auction but just in case I forget about this later on I'll make my bid now. I do know I can set up bid alerts - but they're not much use if I've fallen asleep.