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I would strongly suggest Jerry Shurman's Calculus and Multivariable Calculus texts, which are available for free on his website: people.reed.edu/~jerry/

This is pretty cool. Are there answers for the exercises?

He posts answers to the exercises on his website as the course progresses each year. This year there are no answers because he's not teaching the course; he's on sabbatical.

IMO the theorems in Apostol are tricky reading for most first learning Calculus.. Although probably for the HN crowd are appropriate. But I can't argue with the content or preparation it provides.

I personally prefer Stewart as I think it is appropriate for a wider range of ability, while still being excellent.

Ha, yeah. Apostol definitely was a bit painful at first. But it felt like deriving calculus helped me learn better and remember it longer than more rote methods.

Apostol is quite dry and unmotivated. A grad student friend of mine recently wrote a textbook to replace it, and has been testing it on the freshman honors calculus course here.