LOL !! Evansb, I sure hope that you plan on donating your extensive library to a worthy entity when the time comes.
It is indeed the Northrop XP-56 Black Bullet - the only one of three that survives. Pictures taken by Phillip Juvet at the Western Air Museum in 1989. The aircraft has been returned to the Smithsonian NASM.
XP-56 Walkaround Index
Over to you...
C2j