Raeburn owned Horizon Press, which was known through the mid-20th century for discovering authors in advance of their mass public appeal and publishing works by known authors with limited commercial appeal.
[1] Herbert Mitgang described as legendary Raeburn's ability to perform many of the tasks of publishing, including editing and design, himself.
[1] Horizon published books by Robert Olen Butler a decade in advance of his 1993 Pulitzer Prize.
Other Horizon books include selections from Oriana Fallaci, Irving Howe, and Alfred Kazin.
[1] Raeburn was arrested in 1935 on charges of mailing obscene materials as the office manager of Falstaff Press, which was owned by his aunt and uncle.