1909 R. Burton xii. 285 It is at once a romance of the modern type, a love-story and a problem book.
1927 35 151 The tables of the problem-book fall into four groups.
2002 (Nexis) 1 Jan. 31 A bit like solving story problems by looking at the teacher's manual, with this punchline: the manual goes to a later edition of the problem book.