My personal pick is I.M.Gelfand's "Lectures on linear algebra" (<a href="http://tinyurl.com/gelfand-linalg">link to a copy on Google Books</a>), accompanied by two warnings: (1) the part "Introduction to tensors" is far from perfect; (2) the proof of the Jordan normal form theorem is dramatically outdated (keep in mind that the only English translation of the book is that of the 1950s edition - the latest editions contain a proof that totally makes sense). Then again, many linear algebra textbooks simply avoid Jordan normal forms completely (which I think is a mild disaster).