Bodyworks. Collected Quotations, 1947 to 2017. Accompanied by a Suite of 21st Century Drawings to which Colour was Added in the Summer of 2017 (Signed Limited Edition)

First Edition. Publisher's original red cloth, spine lettered in gold, with the pictorial dust-jacket. Number 77 of a Limited Edition of 100 signed copies, this copy also inscribed by the author on presentation, "To Caroline, with love from Desmond, 2019" on the half-title. A collection of 80 of the author's quotations taken from his writings since the 1940s, each one accompanied by a newly-coloured drawing. Loosely inserted is a scrap of paper with the hand-written name and address of N. Coombs, founder of Dark Windows Press. A fine copy. Morris is considered to be "the last living Surrealist", having been born in Wiltshire in January 1928 (making him 97 at the time of writing). He emerged from the Birmingham Surrealist movement of the 1940s, the members of which would meet regularly at Conroy Maddox's house where they would engage in endless arguments and debate about future plans and how to combat the distain in which the group were held in the those days. In 1949 he went to Paris for he first time where he fell under the influence of such stars at Breton, Miró and Tanguy. His work was further influenced indirectly by his knowledge of biological shapes, which he termed "biomorphs", and by 2020 he had produced a total of 3,394 paintings.