V. Vapnik and A. Chervonenkis (1974)
Theory of Pattern Recognition [in Russian]
Nauka, Moscow.
In these two books, the original "Generalized Portrait" Algorithm for constructing separating hyperplanes with optimal margin is described.
(German Translation: W. Wapnik & A. Tscherwonenkis, Theorie der Zeichenerkennung, Akademie–Verlag, Berlin, 1979)