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The Patron Saints' 1969 album Fohhoh Bohob is considered by many collectors to be one of the most highly sought-after privately-pressed records ever released. Only 100 copies were produced originally, now fetching prices of $2500 and beyond (I recently saw it listed at $3400 in an Italian newsgroup).

A Bohob track, Reflections On A Warm Day, is one of the featured cutson Thomas Hartlage's 1997 two-volume"Love, Peace and Poetry" Psychedelic Music CD/Album release (pictured), which highlights a number of rarities from the sixties and seventies (You can see the cover of Bohob to the upper right of the phonograph lid in the blow-up from the CD's insert to the left). The last paragraph in the liner notes says it all:

With the cost of an original copy of any of the LP´s featured herein well beyond the ability of all but a handful of wealthy collectors to afford, the rest of us are fortunate that a growing number of small labels have emerged devoted to the reissue of these lost recordings on LP and CD. This series of compilation LPs and CDs is designed to introduce a new audience of fans & collectors to the lost chapters of rock history. Uncovering, researching, collecting and listening to these records have given many of us great pleasure. In the words of the prophets, We´d love to turn you on."

You can check out Thomas' Psychedelic-Music website here.