Source: Joseph Ditta of the Gravesend GazetteLongtime reader, author and guest contributor of all things historical in Southern Brooklyn Joseph Ditta [http://www.sheepsheadbites.com/2009/08/gravesent-brooklyn-joseph-ditta-intervie/] managed to find a Maurice Sendak illustration published even earlier than the one we ran [/maurice-sendak-first-published-illustration/]last week. The newly unearthed work